"To speak of a phase (or paradigm) of capitalist development is already to project the existence of capitalism into th…"

"Periodization sequesters human experience. The historicist separation of the past from the present prohibits empathy …"

"The relevance of canonicity has nothing to do with the notion of codified establishments of hierarchical judgment (fo…"

"The reified focus on the moment of literary production, in a distanced context—the typical topic of periodization—sup…"

"When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me, when a truth that fired the soul of St. John, fires mine, time is no…"

"There is no doubt that periodization is a rather effective method of data ordering and analysis, but it deals with ex…"

"It goes against the grain for me to do what so often happens, to speak inhumanly about the great as if a few millenni…"

"Coming to life as classics, they come to life as other than themselves; they are deprived of their antagonistic force…"

"Through the practice of esotericism, the great minds of the past endeavored to create the impression that they were s…"

"Philistines … devised the notion of an epigone-age in order to secure peace for themselves, and to be able to reject …"