As Blanchot says in a footnote, Kojève "demonstrates in a remarkable way how comprehension for Hegel was equivalent to murder," meaning that predication annihilates the singularity of things (or persons) by replacing them with concepts. Following the romantic model, almost any awakening of interest in Hegel will produce (according to Hegelian rules) a countervailing "fragmentary demand," and this seems to have been the case at a critical point in Blanchot's career when Jean Hyppolite, Jean Wahl, and Alexandre Kojève brought Hegel's writings into the play of 20 th-century French intellectual life.įor example, in "Littérature et la droit à la mort," an essay written shortly after the publication in 1947 of Kojève's famous Hegel lectures (1933-39), Blanchot developed a conception of writing as a strategic interruption of Hegel's dialectic - at least Kojève's version of it. More than one student of Romanticism has traced genealogical lines from Schlegel through Emerson and Nietzsche to the writings of the later Heidegger and, eventually, to the French writer Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003). The fragment is, whatever else it is, a figure of freedom. 201, seems to reverse it: "A fragment, like a miniature work of art, has to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world and be complete in itself like a porcupine." To which a Schlegelian might respond by saying that the "true" fragment, contradictions be damned, is something absolutely singular and irreducible, refractory to contexts and inventories. Of course, Nancy and Lacoue-Labarthe make this point only to show how Schlegel himself, in Fr. involves an essential incompletion," an endless deferral of anything resembling a resolution of elements or events, whether in the form of an Aristotelian unity or a Hegelian totality. The prudent scholar will have consulted the early German Romantics, particularly Friedrich Schlegel, arguably the first philosopher of the fragmentary, for whom formal logic and systematic thinking are "philosophical grotesques." As Jean-Luc Nancy and François Lacoue-Labarthe observe, "The fragment. The word "fragment" is basically a covering term for textual variables in a constant state of variation - citations (or ruins) from antiquity, mnemonic forms like aphorisms, anecdotes, and pensées, as well as such random staples as notebook entries, tombstone epitaphs, and snatches of conversation. Send us feedback about these examples.Perhaps the first thing to say about "fragmentary writing" is that it is an instance of what Deleuze and Guattari call "nomad art": multilinear forms that defeat the application of definitions, concepts, or conventional fixations of any kind. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'rhetorical.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Gene Maddaus, Variety, Wednesday’s meeting did not feature the rhetorical fireworks and nasty in-fighting that has punctuated some council sessions in recent months. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, Dougherty has become a star of the strike for her blunt rhetorical style. Bloomberg, Fortune, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles have all served as rhetorical whipping boys. Grace Segers, The New Republic, 1 June 2023 Chinese state media, officials and academics have all publicly rejected the distinction in recent weeks, in a seemingly concerted effort to undermine the rhetorical shift. Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 2 June 2023 In a press conference Wednesday evening, McCarthy enjoyed a rhetorical victory lap. The Editors, National Review, 6 June 2023 In short, the agreement solves a problem the US shouldn’t have faced in the first place, puts some limits on a small chunk of government spending, and makes some policy changes that range from largely rhetorical to simply common-sense. James Freeman, WSJ, 8 June 2023 There’s no doubt that Christie has charisma, rhetorical talent, and an ability to home in on an opponent’s weakness - as Senator Marco Rubio can attest to. Recent Examples on the Web Photo: Frank Franklin II/Associated Press Outrageous rhetorical assaults on the federal judiciary by partisan legislators have unfortunately become a progressive political norm.
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