Publish or Perish Circa 1600.
There may be, after all, an intimate, complex, and paradoxical relation between ‘publish’ and ‘perish’. This may be analogous to the one Derrida posed between ‘writing’ and ‘death’, and anticipates as well the now classical critique of Enlightenment of the Frankfurt School. The birth of the modern p...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of the Book Vol. 4; no. 1; pp. 21 - 29 |
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Common Ground Research Networks
2007
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