Reading Bits and Pieces
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19222225 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Heller-Roazen, Daniel Heller‐roazen (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 146-161 |
| Publication date | 2026-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | differences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1040-7391 • E-ISSN: 1527-1986 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/10407391-12356290 |
| OpenAlex | W7161804243 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
This essay explores the practice of detecting crucial signs in unexpectedly encountered words and sentences. Beginning with Walter Benjamin, who presents “reading pure and simple” as the grasping of fleeting likenesses that alter the perceiver, the article treats three exemplary scenes of hearing and seeing in Augustine, Descartes, and Leibniz that suggest that the interpretation of apparently circumstantial scraps of discourse can exert a life-changing power, for better and for worse
Circumstantial evidence · Close reading · Historical Philosophy and Science · Samuel Beckett and Modernism · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation
| Highly cited | No |
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