 | Susan Buck-Morss - 1979 - 356 sivua
...which the rulers stepped "over those who are lying prostrate."38 Hence he claimed: There is never a document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism. And just as such a document is not free from barbarism, neither is the process of transmitting it from... | |
 | Janet Sternburg - 1980 - 240 sivua
...itself "barbaric." Adorno's objection to poetry after the Holocaust echoes Walter Benjamin's insistence that "there is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism." After the Holocaust or annihilation, no poem can avoid the implication of its actuality as one more... | |
 | Eugene Lunn - 1984 - 348 sivua
...great minds and talents who have created them, but also to the anonymous toil of their contemporaries. There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism. And just as such a document is not free of barbarism, barbarism also taints the manner in which it... | |
 | Richard Machin, Christopher Norris - 1987 - 422 sivua
...already constituted bourgeois "subject", but also calls to mind Walter Benjamin's astringent observation that there is "no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism".13 Leggatt's reading of the play, which conforms to the underlying theory of comedy proposed... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Myra Jehlen - 1986 - 472 sivua
...genealogical understanding challenges those of us professionally devoted to transmitting a culture: "There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism, and just as such a document is not free of barbarism, barbarism taints also the manner in which it... | |
 | Jurgen Habermas - 1990 - 460 sivua
...'"Space of Experience' and 'Horizon of Expectation,'" in Futures Past, p. 276. 26. Ibid., p. 279. 27. "There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism. And just as such a document is not free of barbarism, barbarism taints also the manner in which it... | |
 | Richard Leppert, Susan McClary - 1989 - 226 sivua
...great minds and talents who have created them, but also to the anonymous toil of their contemporaries. There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism .'S3 The barbarism of which I speak is embodied in cultural chauvinism. Perhaps no one expressed that... | |
 | Norman Finkelstein - 1988 - 144 sivua
..."historicity" is much like Benjamin's "historicism," which drives him to declare, in that famous sentence, that "There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism."21 The difference lies, of course, in the issue of human action: for Benjamin, as a Marxist,... | |
 | Chapel Hill Peter A. Coclanis Professor of History University of North Carolina - 1989 - 386 sivua
...Kiawah Indians called home. In a famous essay, completed in 1940, the critic Walter Benjamin wrote: "There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism." 8 Until such time that all of us who love Charleston and the South Carolina low country understand... | |
 | Dianne Hunter - 1989 - 268 sivua
...need only invoke Benjamin's famous thesis, which questions the morality of all cultural transactions: "There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism. And just as such a document is not free of barbarism, barbarism taints also the manner in which it... | |
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