A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
‘The way in which the essay appropriates concepts is most easily comparable to the behaviour of a man who is obliged, in a foreign country, to speak that country's language instead of patching it together from its elements, as he did in school. He will read without a dictionary. If he has looked at the same word thirty times, in constantly changing contexts, he has a clearer grasp of it than he would if he looked up all the words meanings […] Just as learning remains exposed to error, so does the essay as form; it must pay for its affinity with open intellectual experience by the lack of security, a lack which the norm of established thought fears like death.’ (T. W. Adorno, ‘The Essay as Form’ 1 )
‘The way in which the essay appropriates concepts is most easily comparable to the behaviour of a man who is obliged, in a foreign country, to speak that country's language instead of patching it together from its elements, as he did in school. He will read without a dictionary. If he has looked at the same word thirty times, in constantly changing contexts, he has a clearer grasp of it than he would if he looked up all the words meanings […] Just as learning remains exposed to error, so does the essay as form; it must pay for its affinity with open intellectual experience by the lack of security, a lack which the norm of established thought fears like death.’ (T. W. Adorno, ‘The Essay as Form’ 1 )
Perspectives and contingencies
Cummins, Emma (author)
City ; 17 ; 414-418
2013-06-01
5 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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