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2 février 2018
- handle: 10670/1.12bbzd
- isbn: 9782878542790
- eisbn: 9782878548617
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Cornelius Crowley, « The Benign Inhuman in Wordsworth’s Prelude », Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, ID : 10670/1.12bbzd
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The question «where do we stand today» first of all begs the retort «Are we indeed standing at all?». We are obviously moving, and with a form of movement which can be defined neither as walking or striding, nor again as strolling. For some time now, this movement has in fact been taking place accelerando: with increasing acceleration. Ernst Jünger, «Der Weltstaat» (1960, 483). The passage quoted exemplifies a style of questioning characteristic of a modem philosophy and a modem literature. T...