 | Eugene Lunn - 1984 - 348 pages
..."hunchback dwarf" of theology who sits inside him and guides his hands. The allegorical image concludes: "The puppet called 'historical materialism' is to...we know, is wizened and has to keep out of sight."" Here Benjamin explicated his fable, but its mysterious resonance remained intact. The poetic form was... | |
 | Stephen Eric Bronner, Douglas Kellner - 1989 - 332 pages
...an expert chess player sat inside and guided the puppet's hand by means of strings. One can imagine a philosophical counterpart to this device. The puppet...we know, is wizened and has to keep out of sight. "One of the most remarkable characteristics of human nature, writes Lotze, "is, alongside so much selfishness... | |
 | Gary Smith - 1989 - 305 pages
...adds to the interpretation of the image his interpretation of the figures as well: One can imagine a philosophical counterpart to this device. The puppet...as we know, is wizened and has to keep out of sight (693). How, then, do the dwarf and the puppet, theology and historical materialism, relate to one another?... | |
 | Michael James Lacey - 1991 - 228 pages
...an expert chess player sat inside and guided the puppet's hand by means of strings. One can imagine a philosophical counterpart to this device. The puppet...we know, is wizened and has to keep out of sight. Perhaps theology would be in an even more precarious condition if it did not keep out of sight. And... | |
 | Paul R. Mendes-Flohr - 1991 - 484 pages
...an expert chess player sat inside and guided the puppet's hand by means of strings. One can imagine a philosophical counterpart to this device. The puppet...theology, which today, as we know, is wizened and has to be kept out of sight.12 This hidden, but animating, source of the Marxist imagination and passion is... | |
 | Slavoj Žižek - 1989 - 262 pages
...an expert chess player sat inside and guided the puppet's hand by means of strings. One can imagine a philosophical counterpart to this device. The puppet...can easily be a match for anyone if it enlists the service of theology, which today, as we know, is wizened and has to keep out of sight. (Benjamin, 1969,... | |
 | Jeffrey Mehlman - 1993 - 142 pages
...it is actually manned by a "little hunchback" lodged within it. Benjamin concludes: "One can imagine a philosophical counterpart to this device. The puppet...we know, is wizened and has to keep out of sight." 149 What then, to return to our radio scripts, if a certain theology were to function as the "wizened"... | |
 | Lloyd S. Kramer, Donald Reid, William L. Barney - 1994 - 244 pages
...an expert chess player sat inside and guided the puppet's hand by means of strings. One can imagine a philosophical counterpart to this device. The puppet...we know, is wizened and has to keep out of sight" (Illuminations, p. 253). 13. Excessively reductive reading has, I think, been prevalent in the historical... | |
 | Richard Kearney - 1995 - 384 pages
...an expert chess player sat inside and guided the puppet's hand by means of strings. One can imagine a philosophical counterpart to this device. The puppet...we know, is wizened and has to keep out of sight. 'Theses on the Philosophy of History' in Illuminations). It may be more than a coincidence that Benjamin... | |
 | David Luban - 1997 - 424 pages
...an expert chess player sat inside and guided the puppet's hand by means of strings. One can imagine a philosophical counterpart to this device. The puppet...today, as we know, is wizened and has to keep out of sight.228 This parable returns us to King but also to Walker. In Benjamin's ingenious jest we may find... | |
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... with a hookah in its mouth sat before a chessboard placed on a large table. A system of mirrors created the illusion that this table was transparent from all sides. Actually, a little hunchback who was an expert chess player sat inside and guided... 
