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The great mistake of the historian of ideas or the intellectual historian is not to be at the same time an historian of words. What a combination that would be! Given: these things are often at odds. Ask an historian what is meant by history in this sentence or that; this should be enough to [ READ MORE ]
The structure of address of an intellectual (I won’t say academic) essay: not to whom it may concern, but what element in the addressee (in potentia any) it concerns and what element of the stuff (in potentia any) is made visible to awaken that element in the reader. There are many more ways to fail [ READ MORE ]
