...Jonas Rosenbrück Abstract This article analyzes the notions of clarity and obscurity in the work of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten and Maurice Blanchot, arguing that the latter’s thought of the “other night” proposes a radical reversal, indeed, a corruption, of Baumgarten’s founding of aesthetics...

... of some canonical modernist literary texts, their difficulty is that of longing for wisdom and coming to clarity, even if it is clarity about what remains impossible. Zumhagen-Yekplé’s touchstone is Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus , published in modernism’s annus mirabilis...

... generated by the tension between these masterful read- ings of texts and the questionable literary-critical narratives they support. Consider “Odysseus’ Scar,” the first and most famous chapter of Mimesis. The thesis of the essay is that the Homeric style is one of loquacious clarity and exu- berant...

...://www.discovery.org/gilder/ >. For clarity, the url is given, in subsequent citations, for the web site of the Discovery Institute's Gilder Articles Archive. ____. “Cyberspace and the American Dream: A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age.” With Esther Dyson, George Keyworth, and Alvin Toffler for The Progress...

... for the situation in which enthusiasm and emotion make the speaker see what he is saying and bring it visually before his audience. It will not escape you that rhetorical visualization has a different intention from that of the poets: in poetry the aim is astonishment, in oratory it is clarity. Both, however...

... tradition of thinking that prizes common sense, dispassionate analysis, and clarity. Hegel, Nietzsche, and Heidegger are not to be found here, and certainly not Adorno, Derrida, Foucault, or Spivak. (Fanon makes occasional appearances, but as a prickly figure not always to be trusted.) At several junctures...

... it is as if I see in him the disconsolate philosopher, a man locked into the glaring clarity of his logical thinking as inextricably as into his confused emotions, so striking is the likeness between the two of them: in stature, in the way they study one as if across an invisible barrier. . . in a wish...

... this, but in this (obscurely titled) book we have it exhumed. BOOK REVIEWS / 461 But I have to ask how it is that a work about someone so devoted to clarity can itself be so obscure? Departments of English embarked on the long voyage to Planet...

... ideology a philosophical richness and depth it simply did not warrant. For this reason, Moyn contends, Levinas downplayed the Esprit essay in later bibliographies of his work. There is a great deal more to be said about Samuel Moyn’s excellent study, whose erudition, clarity, and compelling...

... the beginning of the twentieth century. In one there is a striving for greater clarity and exactitude —​in the other, an embrace of linguistic “vagueness.” These tendencies are not, she suggests, directly coextensive with the two realms of activity she addresses: early twentieth-century philosophy...

..., the temporal inflection or direction of a state, its directness or indirectness toward a central object, magnitudes of interest stoked, and degrees of selection. As if that weren’t enough—and, to be sure, Alford explains each with clarity and precision, something I cannot do here—she relies on a “double...

... is a “chatty tress,” a “stellified lock”) and the vigor and clarity of her exposition. The first chapter presents Catullus’s longest poem (64), the short epic on the marriage of Peleus and Thetis, as a vehicle that, in featuring a purple coverlet —​a Roman icon of Eastern luxury —​both subverts any...

... perspicacious observations and clarity of arguments make for an indispensable contribution to any graduate-level comparative literature course that stakes a claim to the world. Since the book addresses and articulates so many problems of communication across cultural difference that remain ineffable...

... of infinitesimal differences in feeling (what Jameson calls affect [42] and Nagel describes as ambiguous or “symphonic aggression” [103]), affect requires interpretation. There is no clarity (anymore) in matters emotional. The object of emotion studies has progressively disaggregated. Beyond their literary...

... of turbulent dynamic growth: not state, so to speak, but process; not being, to put it philosophically (and romantically), but Becom- ing. The theme is not so much presented as it is achieved —​achieved through struggle. The clarity of metaphor, instantly apprehended by contemporary listeners, lent...

... you can” (Auden, Poems 153). Arendt sees this history of the will from its discovery in early Christianity to its apotheosis in Nietzsche with remarkable clarity. Once the will has subsumed all other faculties into itself, it closes the temporal horizon without which there can be no specific...

...- tiful verbal artifacts of the twentieth century and their transformation into other languages. She is particularly concerned with translations of writers who resist clarity, writers for whom certain forms of elucidation would entail betrayal. Surprised in Translation melds scholar- ship...

...- tiful verbal artifacts of the twentieth century and their transformation into other languages. She is particularly concerned with translations of writers who resist clarity, writers for whom certain forms of elucidation would entail betrayal. Surprised in Translation melds scholar- ship...

... the history of some of the most beau- tiful verbal artifacts of the twentieth century and their transformation into other languages. She is particularly concerned with translations of writers who resist clarity, writers for whom certain forms of elucidation would entail betrayal. Surprised in Translation...

... the history of some of the most beau- tiful verbal artifacts of the twentieth century and their transformation into other languages. She is particularly concerned with translations of writers who resist clarity, writers for whom certain forms of elucidation would entail betrayal. Surprised in Translation...