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035			_a(OCoLC)1181774492
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
050		4	_aB805 _b.M868 2015
100	1		_aMunro, Michael, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aTheory Is Like a Surging Sea _cMichael Munro.
264		1	_bProject Muse,
264		3	_bProject MUSE,
300			_a1 online resource (74 pages) : _billustrations
500			_aIssued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505	0		_aDichtung und Wahrheit -- 'Without this nothing thinks' : the enigma of the active intellect -- Nearer to you than the sea -- Vertigo, beatitudo : Spinoza and philosophy -- The idea of prose -- Appendix A. Theses on aesthetics as first philosophy -- Appendix B. On exactitude in non-library science -- Coda : on the riddle of history solved.
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520			_aIn a 1917 letter to Gershom Scholem, Walter Benjamin writes, "Theory is like a surging sea." This small book takes more than its title from that line--it takes that line as a point of departure in Erich Auerbach's sense, an Ansatzpunkt, as a compositional principle so that what follows can be read in its entirety as a gloss on the remainder of Benjamin's sentence: "Theory is like a surging sea, but the only thing that matters to the wave [...] is to surrender itself to its motion in such a way that it crests and breaks." That motion, in the pages to follow, takes up in its sweep two threads: it folds an episodic meditation on the negative and the problematic into a series of singular interrogations exemplary of the positive being of the problematic, the objective being of problems and questions, in a movement of implication and explication between poetry and philosophy in the tradition of what's come to be known as theory. Theory is like a surging sea because it's as part of a revolutionary tradition that it crests and breaks.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aPoetry.
650		0	_aModern philosophy _y21st century.
655		0	_aElectronic books.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse, _edistributor.
776	1	8	_iPrint version: _z9780692493908
710	2		_aProject Muse. _edistributor
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/76486/
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