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Title

  • Theory is like a surging sea

Summary

  • "In 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"-- Punctumbooks.

Names

  • Munro, Michael, author

Created / Published

  • Brooklyn, New York : Punctum Books, dead letter office, BABEL Working Group, an imprint of Punctum Books, August 02, 2015.
  • ©2015

Headings

  • -  Philosophy, Modern--21st century

Genre

  • Electronic books

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references.
  • -  Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (oapen WWW site, viewed July 28, 2020).

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Call Number/Physical Location

  • B805

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020394775

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Access Advisory

  • Unrestricted online access

Online Format

  • image
  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Munro, Michael, Author. Theory Is Like a Surging Sea. Brooklyn, New York: Punctum Books, dead letter office, BABEL Working Group, an imprint of Punctum Books, . ©2015, 2015. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2020394775/.

APA citation style:

Munro, M. (2015) Theory Is Like a Surging Sea. Brooklyn, New York: Punctum Books, dead letter office, BABEL Working Group, an imprint of Punctum Books, . ©2015. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2020394775/.

MLA citation style:

Munro, Michael, Author. Theory Is Like a Surging Sea. Brooklyn, New York: Punctum Books, dead letter office, BABEL Working Group, an imprint of Punctum Books, . ©2015, 2015. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2020394775/>.