The Franco-Frankfurt-Frankenstein’s Monster: Ludwig Klages and the Magical Foundations of Critical Theory
Philosophical dialectic springs from the impulse to overcome conceptual thinking.—Ludwig Klages, Rhythmen und Runen, 1944 Continental philosophy’s main role in the American academy is to serve as the home for certain kinds of skepticism, particularly those directed toward stable conceptions of knowledge and meaning. Nonspecialists use the words deconstruction and