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(2006) Literature and philosophy, Dordrecht, Springer.
Construction without theory
oblique reflections on Walter Benjamin's Goethe
Richard J. Lane
pp. 114-123
it [metaphysics] is a highly speculative philosophy of fundamental questions regarding politics and theology, drawing on a near scholastic aptitude for categorical analysis and Talmudic rigor within a conception of divine continuity of meaning. In this way it is in fact a philosophy of divine as well as profane questions. ‘Metaphysics,’ Scholem once remarks [sic] in his Swiss notebook, ‘is a legitimate theory in the subjunctive form’. (Jacobson, p. 5)
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Lane, R. J. (2006)., Construction without theory: oblique reflections on Walter Benjamin's Goethe, in D. Rudrum (ed.), Literature and philosophy, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 114-123.
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