According to Robert Markley, historians and philosophers of science who link the rise of science to the rise of modern, objective forms of writing are interpret

In the most comprehensive account to date of Walter Benjamin’s philosophy of language, Alexander Stern explores the nature of meaning by putting Benjamin in d

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