 | Slavoj Žižek - 1989 - 262 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. (Thesis VII) In contrast to the triumphal procession of victors exhibited by official historiography,... | |
 | Stephen Eric Bronner, Douglas Kellner - 1989 - 332 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 taints also the manner in which it... | |
 | Robert S. Levine, Robert Steven Levine - 1989 - 328 sivua
...civilization a thing distinct, or is it an advanced state of barbarism?" (IP, 130). Walter Benjamin writes, "There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism" (Illuminations [New York: Schocken, 1969], p. 256). Benito Cereno, I have been arguing, offers a pedagogy... | |
 | Paul R. Mendes-Flohr - 1991 - 484 sivua
...221-38." 14 "To Brush History against the Grain": The Eschatology of the Frankfurt School and Ernst Bloch There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism. The historical materialist therefore . . . regards it as his task to brush history against the grain.'... | |
 | Daniel P. Watkins - 1989 - 246 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.13 To explain Apollo in these terms is not to condemn that god's intentions, but rather to... | |
 | Michele Wallace - 1990 - 296 sivua
...signposts where the bodies - that is, the bodies of those who have been ignored or negated - are buried. 'There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism,' Walter Benjamin once pointed out.6 Moreover, 'the myth of dispassionate investigation bolsters the... | |
 | Alan Gilbert - 1990 - 532 sivua
...course" of history, captures an important feature of creative Marxian historiography. As Benjamin put it, "there is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism"; a Marxian does not "move with the current" but "regards it as his task to brush history against the... | |
 | Donald E. Morton, Masʼud Zavarzadeh - 1991 - 268 sivua
...introduction to critical theory in graduate school to the source of the funding that made it possible? "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... | |
 | Stephen Greenblatt - 1991 - 230 sivua
...possible to hear echoes of the nomad. To use Walter Benjamin's great epigram in a way he had not intended, 'There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.'15 I want to return now to the European encounter with the New World. There is no easy transition... | |
 | Harvey J. Kaye - 1991 - 212 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.34 Nevertheless, such an understanding of past and present does not entail the wholesale... | |
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