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Dickinson’s Dog and the Conclusion
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John Michael
Published: 03 April 2018
...As a way of capturing the continuing strangeness of Dickinson’s poetic practice and her revolutionary relationship to dominant modes of discourse in her time and ours, this chapter explores the relationship of her poetry to romantic theories of fragmentation and to Freud’s notion of the shaggy dog...
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Blanchot in The International Review
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Christopher Fynsk
Published: 13 June 2013
... Sartre Jean Paul Marx Karl Heidegger Martin Benjamin Walter Hölderlin Friedrich Levinas Emmanuel Fragmentation Globalization Community Intellectuals World Berlin The circumstances surrounding the attempted creation and eventual abandonment of The International Review ...
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The Problem of Choice in Comparative Theology
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Catherine Cornille
Published: 05 December 2017
... and growth. She proposes addressing the problem of choice and fragmentation in the field by focusing on certain pressing theological questions or problems within one’s religion and exploring how another religion might shed light on those problems. She points also to the continued importance of the theology...
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Bodies without Wholes: Apophatic Excess and Fragmentation in Augustine's City of God
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Virginia Burrus and Karmen Mackendrick
Published: 28 November 2009
... as God does. The fragmentation, the break not only between intention and expression but also between human and divine in the fallen world, produces excess, not merely by adding on lies to the truth, but by keeping us talking (perhaps fictively) toward a God our words can never reach: there is always more...
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The One and the Many
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Karmen MacKendrick
Published: 17 November 2008
...This chapter provides a history of the linked topics of memory and fragmentation, in a review of the classic philosophical version of recollection and fragmentation—the problem of the one and the many—in which people find early considerations of the relations of temporal and eternal as well...
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The Mind of Music
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Bruce W. Wilshire
Published: 01 February 2016
... structuring of the self in its immediate life is to be disclosed through the minding and reasoning unique to music and its cousin arts. This is the subconscious minding and pulsing body itself. We are today experiencing profound cultural fragmentation, dis-integration in the continuity and identity...
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Improving Life
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Patrick Shade and John Lachs
Published: 03 March 2014
... there is a unity of purpose and outcome). Lachs argues that the first is limited to a few activities (e.g., play, sports, or conversations) with little promise of extension, and he finds the latter two problematic, especially given the fragmentation mediation generates. In an otherwise astonishingly abstract...
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Cut
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Karmen Mackendrick
Published: 01 December 2004
... of incision come always with an admixture of pain. The first element of the cut explored here is that of disruption or fragmentation, the sense of being cut up or cut apart. The second element is that of inscription. Articulation Celan Paul Cut Disruption “In Prague” Celan Inscription Pain Sacred...
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What's These Worlds Coming To?
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Jean-Luc Nancy and Aurélien Barrau
Published online: 21 May 2015
Published in print: 15 October 2014
... in a time of ruin and fragmentation, but of rebuilding. In the time of this rebuilding, the book argues that contemporary thought has shifted from deconstruction to what they carefully call the struction of dis-order....
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Intransitive Love in Rainer Maria Rilke's The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
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Leonardo F. Lisi
Published: 12 December 2012
...Chapter 8 concludes this book with an examination of Rilke's notoriously problematic novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge . The chapter begins by analyzing the function of a binary structure in the text between, on the one hand, the logic of fragmentation, which is associated...
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Published: 02 January 2017
... and Jane M Jacobs Palladio Andrea Trippe Rosemary Freud Sigmund Jensen Wilhelm Schleimann Heinrich Troy relics Burckhardt Jacob humanism fragmentation of language Freud and archaeology erotics of fragments Hypnerotomachia Poliphili For Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum...
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Multiplicity and Christocentric Theology
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John F. Hoffmeyer
Published: 01 October 2013
...This chapter calls into question a common pejorative assumption that identifies multiplicity with fragmentation, and points out that fragmentation and the tendency toward disjointed “manyness” is not the only meaning of multiplicity. Rather, the etymology of “multiplicity” in fact works against...
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Introduction: On Having Forgotten
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Karmen MacKendrick
Published: 17 November 2008
...This chapter starts by exploring the idea of forgetting how to write. Then it looks into the initial surprise, the subsequent fragmentation, recollection, and even coherence of the written work providing the formative impetus and question for this text. It notes that the surprise of writing...
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The Sin of Origin
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Karmen MacKendrick
Published: 17 November 2008
..., this chapter considers original sin as an ostensibly “primary” fragmentation that in fact complicates or even undoes the notion of primacy or of origin. The theoretical considerations of original sin come fairly directly from the works of Augustine, but they are read through curious comments that Gilles...
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Last Steps: Maurice Blanchot's Exilic Writing
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Christopher Fynsk
Published online: 23 January 2014
Published in print: 13 June 2013