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Meaningless Necessities

Franco Moretti

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? (2015). Meaningless Necessities. New Left Review, 91, pp. 39-44

philosophical and metaphysical theories of divine presence in which the divine encompasses or is manifested in the material world

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But of course the world of The Theory of the Novel is characterized by the opposite state of affairs—by the ‘refusal of the immanence of meaning to enter into empirical life’.

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But of course the world of The Theory of the Novel is characterized by the opposite state of affairs—by the ‘refusal of the immanence of meaning to enter into empirical life’.

—p.41 missing author
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6 years, 8 months ago

make (something abstract) more concrete or real

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A few years later, the analysis of reification of History and Class Consciousness (1919–1923) will offer a Marxist way out from those contradictions

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A few years later, the analysis of reification of History and Class Consciousness (1919–1923) will offer a Marxist way out from those contradictions

—p.41 missing author
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6 years, 8 months ago

unable to be resisted or avoided; inescapable

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Theory of the Novel belongs to the small circle of masterpieces—Baudelaire’s tableaux, Flaubert’s novels, Manet’s paintings, Ibsen’s plays, or, indeed, Weber’s last lectures—where the rules of bourgeois existence are at once ineluctable and bankrupt

—p.41 missing author
notable
6 years, 8 months ago

Theory of the Novel belongs to the small circle of masterpieces—Baudelaire’s tableaux, Flaubert’s novels, Manet’s paintings, Ibsen’s plays, or, indeed, Weber’s last lectures—where the rules of bourgeois existence are at once ineluctable and bankrupt

—p.41 missing author
notable
6 years, 8 months ago