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    The virtual objectivity of the Idea can be adequately rep... — Carmelics
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    The virtual objectivity of the Idea can be adequately represented through the model of an astrological constellation.

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    • 1.A constellation simultaneously groups individual stars together and is revealed by the cluster of those individual stars.
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    • 2.Ideas similarly are constituted by and made visible through the reconfiguring of actual phenomena.
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    • 3.This relationship of mutual constitution between the whole and its particulars captures the non-subsumptive character of Ideas.
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    • 1.Constellations are observer-relative projections onto stars that lack intrinsic spatial relation, undermining any claim to objective structure.
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    • 2.Benjamin's Ideas require a non-arbitrary, immanent ordering of phenomena, which a model dependent on perspectival projection cannot supply.
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    • 3.Cassirer's symbolic forms demonstrate that genuine conceptual totalities require internal logical articulation, not merely visual clustering.
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    • 1.Hegel argued that genuine philosophical representation must exhibit dialectical self-development, not static juxtaposition of particulars.
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    • 2.A constellation arrests its elements in fixed spatial simultaneity, excluding the temporal movement through which Ideas, for Hegel, achieve determinacy.
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    • 3.Benjamin's rejection of dialectical mediation thus purchases the appearance of non-subsumptive thought at the cost of rendering Idea-formation inexplicable.
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    Benjamin’s theoretical elaboration proceeds by startling imagistic reconfigurations of pre-existing elements within the philosophical tradition. He offers a number of possibilities for thinking such Ideas in the Prologue, taken from the realm not only of philosophy but of aesthetics, theology and science. The first is the Platonic Idea, here divorced from its association with the scientific ascent to some purely rational, objective knowledge (such as appears in the account of dialectic in the Re
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