The poetics of sociology

second nature and narrative in the early Kracauer

Leif Weatherby

pp. 117-133

in: Jörn Ahrens, Paul Fleming, Susanne Martin, Ulrike Vedder (eds), "Doch ist das wirkliche auch vergessen, so ist es darum nicht getilgt", Berlin, Springer, 2017

Abstract

Nature should be singular. Whether we think of what the Greeks called physis as the totality of non-subjects or as the rules for bringing that totality into stable appearance, it can suffer copying but no alteration. Between subject and natural object, there can be no middling value.

Cited authors

Kracauer Siegfried