https://arthistoriography.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/media_139138_en.pdf
p.2 transmissibility, Kafka sacrifices truth for just that
"‘Worldliness’, she asserts, is ‘the capacity to fabricate and create a world’, the ‘space in which things become public’." (3)
Histor: aesthetic figure of virtual historiography
"aesthetic figure is guided by an insight that reveals the paradox of transmissibility in its starkest light: passing between what-has-been (das Gewesene) and artifice it makes possible an affirmative, creative event of recollection" (5)
HOMO FABER
"The moment this point of view [fabrication, means to an end, use value] is generalized and extended to other realms … [it] threatens not only the political realm … it also threatens the cultural realm itself because it leads to a devaluation of things as things which … degenerate into mere means." Arendt, Between Past and Future, 216.
"Arendt’s discussion of art as an exception to this rule, as something outside the ‘life process’ inextricable from history itself, is wholly dependent on the Kantian notion of judgment." (7)
Arendt sought to "to construct a political philosophy (a Kantian theory of political judgment) from Kant’s aesthetic philosophy" (7)
Anti-Gramsci -- politics come from Aesthetics, not the other way around?
"Because Arendt decides to make this move," from Aesthetic Judgment to Political Judgment "she has to side with the spectator (world-citizen) over the agent or enactor, as evidenced by her shift from arguing for an ‘act of judging’ with connotations of action (political) to a ‘faculty of judgment’ (a capacity of the mind)" (Beiner article, 93-4)
"Art transmits the disquiet of the past (to play on Hegel’s phrase ‘the quiet of the past’) to the future. This disquiet of the past—its haunting, repetitive aspect—is a clamor that causes anxiety and dread as much as the unknown future does." (10)
Kafka HE parable:
"He has two antagonists; the first presses him from behind, from his origin. The second blocks the road in front of him. He gives battle to both … His dream, though, is that some time in an unguarded moment—and this, it must be admitted, would require a night darker than any other night has ever been yet—he will jump out of the fighting line and be promoted, on account of his experience in fighting, to the position of umpire over his antagonists in their fight with each other"
