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Document Details : Title: The Burden of Finitude Subtitle: On Philosophy as Convalescence Author(s): BLOECHL, Jeffrey Journal: Tijdschrift voor Filosofie Volume: 84 Issue: emeritaatsnummer Date: 2022 Pages: 237-249 DOI: 10.2143/TVF.84.5.3290719 Abstract : The philosophy that embraces finitude as its own condition must view its own use of language with suspicion. The ordinary function of language to share meaning requires an effort toward universality. The philosophy that would undo language would in the same stroke uncover what is novel and unique, or as we prefer to say, ‘singular in its occurrence’. A literary tradition from Coleridge through Poe to Baudelaire has associated attentiveness to the latter with childhood, and recovery of the latter with convalescence. These thoughts also appear in some late texts by Nietzsche, where their burden becomes apparent. |
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