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Getting lost, feminist efforts toward a double(d) science German literary critic Peter Szondi (1978) argues that Benjamin's angel is the historian facing backwards, emblematic of the crisis of dialectics, a prophet facing backwards as a ...
by Patricia Ann Lather
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Fragments of the feminine sublime in Friedrich Schlegel and James Joyce Harry Zohn [1968; New York: Schocken Books, 1969] 257-58). And Schlegel's AF 80, KFSA 2:176: "Der Historiker ist ein riickwarts gekehrter Prophet" [The historian is a prophet facing backwards [AF 80, Firchow [1991] 27)].
by Ginette Verstraete
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Victorian transformations, genre, nationalism and desire in nineteenth-century literature Carlyle offers a literalization of Friedrich Schlegel's aphoristic claim that " The historian is a prophet facing backwards" (170). However, Carlyle inverts what Ian Balfour calls the "received or commonsensical reading" of Schlegel's ...
by Bianca Tredennick
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Representation and its discontents, the critical legacy of German romanticism Schlegel calls the historian "a prophet facing backwards" (ein riickwdrts gekehrter Prophet; 1958, v. 176, no. 80). In other words, all historical understanding is located at a site where different visions and dimensions of time intrude ...
by Azade Seyhan
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On textual understanding and other essays This paradoxical trajectory confirms in an unexpected manner Friedrich Schlegel's definition of the historian as a prophet facing backwards. It also distinguishes Benjamin from the philosopher who, along with Emst Bloch, stands closest ...
by Peter Szondi
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Coleridge and the conservative imagination 3 Imagination and the Wisdom of History Der Historiker ist ein ruckwarts gekehter Prophet. The historian is a prophet facing backwards. — Friedrich von Schlegel (1772-1829), Athenaum Fragments, 80 Historical Method: Knowledge as Power ...
by Alan P. R. Gregory
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21st-century Gothic, great Gothic novels since 2000 THE ULTIMATE GOTHIC REVENGE IN ELIZABETH KOSTOVA'S THE HISTORIAN Danel Olson The historian is a prophet facing backward. . . . The novelist [is] a historian facing inward. . . . This historian watches how his or her fallible characters ...
by Danel Olson
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Sites of Vision, The Discursive Construction of Sight in the History of Philosophy Thus, as Comay says, we find in Benjamin's "Theses on History" the "familiar catalog of renunciations — the historian as the prophet facing backward ( Schlegel), the modern Orpheus who now stands to lose his Eurydice by looking ahead ...
by David Michael Levin
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Walter Benjamin And Art Thus the familiar catalogue of renunciations - the historian as the prophet facing backward (Schlegel), the modern Orpheus who now stands to re-lose his Eurydice by looking ahead (Jean Paul). 'Accursed is the rider who is chained to his ...
by Andrew E. Benjamin
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A Guide to Hajj, 'Umrah and Visiting the Prophet's Mosque After finishing the Farewell Tawaaf some people walk backwards, facing the Ka' bah when going out of the Sacred Masjid, ... Eighth: Errors Related to the visit to the Prophet's Masjid 1. Rubbing one's hands on the walls and the iron ...
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