Nathan Brown

Prof @Concordia / Author of Rationalist Empiricism; The Limits of Fabrication; Baudelaire's Shadow / Translator of The Flowers of Evil @VersoBooks

[Nathan Brown @redwithoutwhy]

Front and back covers for Baudelaire's Shadow, forthcoming from Fordham University Press on March 3

[Nathan Brown @redwithoutwhy]

@TuttReal That would be a real step forward

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@TuttReal This ain’t just some partisan complaint. This way of speaking totally obscures the intellectual history of German thought from the 1790s to WWII

[Nathan Brown @redwithoutwhy]

@TuttReal All of this is embroiled in conflations and reductions that make no sense, and these are redoubled every time someone slings around the term “romantic” as if its meaning were self-evident, as if it designates a whole strain of “anti-Enlightenment” ideology from Jena to the Nazis

[Nathan Brown @redwithoutwhy]

@TuttReal An more broadly, Lukacs is a great thinker, but he is absolutely terrible reader of Schelling and of German idealism more broadly. He has an embarrassingly simplistic understanding of romantic irony cribbed from Hegel's irritated remarks.

[Nathan Brown @redwithoutwhy]

@TuttReal It isn't 1945 anymore

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@TuttReal No, though I'll deal with the issue in the book I'm writing on the legacy of Jena romanticism. Concerning Benjamin, I suggest reading his doctoral dissertation "On the Concept of Criticism in German Romanticism" and perhaps Peter Osborne's Anywhere or Not at All.

[Nathan Brown @redwithoutwhy]

@TuttReal @adornos_soul lolll Jesus christ almighty

[Nathan Brown @redwithoutwhy]

Fichte wishes you a fine morning, to be spent in accordance with the moral law.

[Nathan Brown @redwithoutwhy]

Granville Redmond, California Poppy Field, circa 1926. At LACMA's new David Geffen Galleries, designed by Peter Zumthor.

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My sprawling essay on Elemental History in Peter Zumthor’s architecture and Hölderlin’s poetry has just been published in boundary2 online. Thanks to Arne de Boever and Frédéric Neyrat for their editorial generosity.

https://t.co/dSkov1mtVs

[Nathan Brown @redwithoutwhy]

@thezachloeffler Better!

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@thezachloeffler I take you to be unable to write a sentence

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Prospective table of contents for my ongoing book project.

*possibly unfamiliar names are Cheyney Thompson, Joan Mitchell, Jacques Dupin

x complete draft; x- partial draft; - still to write.

[Nathan Brown @redwithoutwhy]

@Permanentkritik Jazz defenders?