What Is Called Thinking?

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What Is A Fragment?

What Is A Fragment?

A Brief History of Fragmentation in Philosophy and Literature

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Zohar Atkins
Jan 23, 2023
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Pascal is said to have written in a fragmentary style so as to underscore that total and complete knowledge is God’s, alone. Nietzsche wrote in a fragmentary style to underscore not the transcendence of God’s knowledge, but the perspectivalism of human knowledge—there is no “view from nowhere.” In the romantic period, Hölderlin, Schlegel, and others emu…

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