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    The concept of historical origin cannot be reduced to emp... — Carmelics
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    The concept of historical origin cannot be reduced to empirical causality or the naked factual existence of what has come into being.

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    • 1.Aristotle's distinction between efficient causality and formal cause shows that what something *is* cannot be derived from how it was *produced*.
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    • 2.Benjamin's concept of Ursprung designates a vortex in the stream of becoming, recovering suppressed possibilities that mere genetic accounts permanently foreclose.
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    • 3.Hegel's dialectic demonstrates that the truth of a phenomenon emerges through its developmental contradictions, not its contingent point of emergence in time.
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    • 1.Husserl's genetic phenomenology establishes that the sedimented meaning of cultural forms exceeds any causal-historical reconstruction of their factual genesis.
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    • 2.A causal account of origin treats contingent antecedents as sufficient explanation, thereby eliminating the normative surplus that makes historical works intelligible as works.
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    • 1.Historical origin is not merely 'the coming-to-be of what has originated'.
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    • 2.Historical origin cannot be recognized in 'the naked, manifest existence of the factual'.
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    • 3.Reducing origin to empirical causality abstracts away from the essential inner history of works and forms.
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    Benjamin’s concern to reincorporate the perspective of art’s temporal transformation demands an analogous radicalization. The “genetic and concrete classification” (OGT, 24) that Benedetto Croce called history (in order to distinguish it from that generalizing thought that abstracts away from change and development) must now be reconciled with Benjamin’s theory of Ideas. For the messianic philosophy of history that grounds Benjamin’s work problematizes existing formulations of the concepts of hi
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