An Idea in Combat with Itself: Benjamin, Hölderlin, and “Temporal Plasticity”

Fenves examines Walter Benjamin's "temporal plasticity" as a countermodel to "experience," which, he argues, "represents time as a unidimensional, irreversible flow." For Fenves, the plasticity of time means that it is multidimensional, static, and formable--hence...

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Time
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