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Realität ist schlichtweg das Unverdächtige: On Blumenberg and Critical Affect
Zoom PrincetonBlumenberg’s “Wirklichkeitsbegriff und Möglichkeit des Romans” (1964) expounds a modern concept of reality as what resists our grasp, a successor to an earlier concept of reality as what is secured by a guarantee. Blumenberg’s analysis of reality as resistance illuminates the bottomless suspicion that motivates critique, along with the critical affects catalogued by Eve Sedgwick […]