 | Jürgen Habermas - Philosophy - 1985 - 248 pages
...spell, so Fascism teaches us, do the masses find their expression." (GS III, p. 488) 15. "Whereas in the symbol destruction is idealized and the transfigured...hippocratica of history as a petrified, primordial landscape. . . .This is the heart of the allegorical way of seeing, of the baroque, secular explanation of history... | |
 | Catherine Gallagher, Thomas Laqueur - History - 1987 - 264 pages
...all its ambivalence fixed in tableaux. Like mysticism, history practices a language of bodies, and so "the observer is confronted with the 'fades hippocratica' of history as a petrified primordial landscape" (als erstarrte Urlandschaft; OT, 166). — Because history emerges here in its catastrophic and fictive... | |
 | Susan Buck-Morss - Philosophy - 1991 - 512 pages
...by [people's] own warmth in order not to freeze to death [ . . . ] (IV, p. 99). Notes to pages 18-22 and the transfigured face of nature is fleetingly revealed in the light of redemption, in allegory there lies before one's gaze the facies hippocralica [deathmask] of history as a petrified, primitive... | |
 | David B. Downing, Susan Bazargan - Philosophy - 1991 - 368 pages
...symbol made possible a formal definition of the relationship between the two tropes: "Whereas in the symbol destruction is idealized and the transfigured...redemption, in allegory the observer is confronted with the facies hippocratica of history as a petrified, primordial landscape" (Origin 166). In other words,... | |
 | Bernd Witte - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 238 pages
...from its historical coding: "Whereas in the symbol, with its transfiguration of ruin, the evanescent face of nature is fleetingly revealed in the light of redemption, in allegory the fades hippocratica of history presents itself to the beholder as a rigidified primal landscape."46... | |
 | Keith Busby - Social Science - 1992 - 273 pages
...permits the incisive, formal definition of the relationship between symbol and allegory. Whereas in the symbol destruction is idealized and the transfigured...of history, as a petrified, primordial landscape. "Allegory" is what "everything becomes" for the poet because the change in the landscape marked by... | |
 | Stephen F. Eisenman, Odilon Redon - Art - 1992 - 322 pages
...mistaken for) transience, decay, mortality, and history. Walter Benjamin has written: "Whereas in the symbol destruction is idealized and the transfigured...redemption, in allegory the observer is confronted with the/acies hippocratica of history as a petrified, primordial landscape. Everything about history that,... | |
 | Craig Owens - Art - 1992 - 410 pages
...history as an irreversible process of dissolution and decay, a progressive distancing from origin: In allegory the observer is confronted with the fades...Everything about history that, from the very beginning, had been untimely, sorrowful, unsuccessful, is expressed in a face — or rather in a death's head.... | |
 | C. C. Barfoot - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 340 pages
...Heaney's and Muldoon's poetry: Whereas in the symbol destruction is idealised and the transfigured state of nature is fleetingly revealed in the light of redemption, in allegory the observer is confronted with ^he facies hippocratica of history as a petrified, primordial landscape.62 "Idealisation" of "destruction"... | |
 | Rolf Wiggershaus - Philosophy - 1994 - 804 pages
...history as 'the Passion of the world', significant 'only in the stations of its decline'. 'Whereas in the symbol destruction is idealized and the transfigured...redemption, in allegory the observer is confronted with the/odes hippocratica of history as a petrified, primordial landscape.' 'By its very essence classicism... | |
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Whereas in the symbol, destruction is idealized and the transfigured face of nature is fleetingly revealed in the light of redemption, in allegory the observer is confronted with the fades hyppocratica of history as a petrified, primordial landscape. 
