Matters of Memory and Creaturely Concerns: A Response to Pieter Vermeulen

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Notes

1 Nietzsche, The Use and Abuse of History, 5-7.

2 Nora, “Between Memory and History,” 13.

3 Shakespeare, Henry V, Act 3, scene 1, 5–9.

4 See Cavell, “Companionable Thinking” and Wolfe, “Exposures.” Anat Pick also writes of ‘vulnerability as universal mode of exposure’ in Creaturely Poetics, 5.

5 Hanssen, Walter Benjamin’s Other History, 6.

6 Kafka, “A Report to an Academy,” 173.

7 I have written further on this point in Thinking Animals, 11–14.

8 Benjamin, “Franz Kafka,” 132.

9 Ibid., 134.

10 Rilke, Duino Elegies, 67.

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Kari Weil

Kari Weil is University Professor of Letters at Wesleyan University. Email: [email protected].