Rainer Nägele's scientific contributions

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The extremes as points of orientation define the via regia of philosophical investigation for Benjamin. The first sentence that opens the main body of Benjamin's The Origin of the German Tragic Drama, after the epistemological preface, categorically states the direction as “the necessary direction toward the extreme” (Origin, 57). The extreme as po...

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... 9 Benjamin will further develop the term in his later writings on Brecht. On this later development of Haltung see Nägele (2006). 10 Caygill (1998, p. 57) stresses the transformative power of the method, however, he disregards the scholastic tractatus as a practice of writing. ...