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Historicization

MT · Wk 2

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WhenThursday 22 October at 6:00 pm
WhereA living room. The address goes out on the list.
BringThe reading, not a paper

The reading

Nietzsche, "On the Uses and Abuses of History for Life" · John Nemec, "Translation and the Study of Indian Religions"

We open with the oldest charge against philology: that history, pursued for its own sake, can smother the life it sets out to recover. Nietzsche makes the charge; Nemec answers it from inside the study of Indian religions.

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