Chapter 2: Teige, Dualisms, and ‘Historicism’
Peter Zusi
From The Integrity of the Avant-Garde: Karel Teige and the Biography of an Ambition (2024), pp. 79-104, doi:10.59860/vc.c69a5ac
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| Part of the book: The Integrity of the Avant-Garde Peter Zusi Legenda Abstract. Chapter 2 provides two different frameworks for understanding the historical and contextual material provided in Chapter 1. First is a theoretical framework focused on the question of ‘dualisms’, a surprisingly persistent feature of Teige’s thought. The chapter argues, however, that more significant than the dualisms as such is Teige’s ambition to integrate such dualisms, and places this within an argument for the importance of holistic drives within the interwar avant-garde. Second, the chapter argues that a feature of Teige’s thought is his remarkable expansion of the notion of ‘historicism’. Placing this within a philosophical framework drawing on Herder, Hegel, and Nietzsche, the chapter argues that the notion of ‘historical integrity’ is fundamental to Teige’s thought. Full text. This contribution is published as Open Access and can be downloaded as a PDF, or viewed as a PDF in your web browser, here: |
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