All philosophy is condemned, to the extent that it is dependent upon figuration, to be literary and, as the depository of this very problem, all literature is to some extent philosophical. The apparent symmetry of these statements is not as reassuring as it sounds since what seems to bring literature and philosophy together is a shared lack of identity or specificity.
– Paul de Man, the Epistemology of Metaphor.
This is why I like literature and philosophy, I don’t think it is a condemning trait of these two.
This is why I like literature and philosophy, I don’t think it is a condemning trait of these two.
All philosophy is condemned, to the extent that it is dependent upon figuration, to be literary and, as the depository of this very problem, all literature is to some extent philosophical. The apparent symmetry of these statements is not as reassuring as it sounds since what seems to bring literature and philosophy together is a shared lack of identity or specificity.
– Paul de Man, the Epistemology of Metaphor.
This is why I like literature and philosophy, I don’t think it is a condemning trait of these two.
This is why I like literature and philosophy, I don’t think it is a condemning trait of these two.
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