...statements that are unforgettable and have taken on a life of their own. For example, there is the famous, "There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism."49 To read "On the Program . . ." is to seek to understand the logic of the argument. After...

...indicates the doublesided nature of 'cultural treasures' that embody what we call 'civilisation'. Famously, 'There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism'.18 This insight drives that major recent critical tendency - fundamentally semiotic-deconstructive,...

...product of progressive political transformations? We are all familiar with Walter Benjamin's dictum "There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism."12 Perhaps less clear is how these words apply to those documents of civilization written...

...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 a document is not free of barbarism, barbarism taints also the manner in which it was transmitted...

...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...

...civility. Dull rewrites the age-old narrative of English barbarism. As Walter Benjamin famously observed, "there is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism." 3 Writing about fascism while writing about history, Benjamin believed that it was necessary to "brush...

...in the light" (French Writers 3 5) - we are more likely to prefer Walter Benjamin's darker version: "There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism" (Illuminations 256). It would be naive to imagine that the justice we rarely find in history is somehow...

...Inquisitor live. From Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, El primer nuera coronicay buen gobierno (1613?). There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.— WALTER BENJAMIN, "Theses on the Philosophy of History"1 |Y WAY OF CONFRONTING and understanding the...

...IshmaePs plot of universal friendship and equality against Ahab's plot of universal empire. Epilogue 'There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism,' writes Walter Benjamin. Perhaps no document of the cultural history of the Black Atlantic better illustrates...

...documents of one kind or another. This approach also owes much to the historicist ideas of Walter Benjamin. There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism' (1992: 248), he argues, meaning that even the 'cultural treasures' of all societies, such as the canonical...