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Article: Culture's hieroglyph in Benjamin and Novalis: a matter of feeling. (Walter Benjamin and Friedrich von Hardenberg)
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- The Germanic Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 1996
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With the disappearance of manifest historical traditions and national boundaries that secure cultural identities, the concept of community has become a new target for philosophers and critics alike. The question is, how can we still speak of community and of an awareness of community when there is no longer a signifying order securely anchored in and by a subject? Jean Luc Nancy, for one, has tried to respond to this question with a shift away from community, in the traditional sense of shared subjectivities, toward a recognition of political passion. For it is the experience of being affected by the real (of pleasure and pain)--and in face of the real, even of ...