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Walter Benjamin discusses these adaptations of monadological principles in his dissertation, "The Concept of Criticism in German Romanticism" (134-135, 147). close window

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The most explicit contemporaneous account of Benjamin's monadological method appears in Kracauer, "On the Writings of Walter Benjamin."

Club Monad 2008

It is from within, in the movement of the immanent form, of artworks and the dynamic of their relation to the concept of art, that it ultimately becomes manifest how much art — in spite of, and because of its monadological essence — is an element in the movement of spirit and of social reality.

History against Historicism, Formal Matters, and the Event of the Text: De Man with Benjamin 2005

Deleuze comes closest to the present conception of singularity in his analysis of a kind of phenomenology of monadological perceptions in Leibniz in The Fold: Leibniz and the

Notes on 'Thinking Singularity with Immanuel Kant and Paul de Man: Aesthetics, Epistemology, History and Politics' 2005

Our reading, itself monadological in this sense, enters, with Blake, into the infinite opening of the finite: "it finitely represents infinity," as Leibniz once said.

Chaosmic Orders: Nonclassical Physics, Allegory, and the Epistemology of Blake's Minute Particulars. 2001

4 The monadological schema of the Trauerspiel book appears in its notoriously difficult "Epistemo-Critical Preface."

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Novalis) — the literary-philosophical fragment — clearly takes inspiration not only from the philosophy of the monad, but from the monadological style of Leibniz's treatise: "A fragment, like a miniature work of art, has to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world and be complete in itself" (Schlegel, Athaneum Fragments,

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Concept of Criticism in German Romanticism, "which views the" medium of reflection "posited by Schlegel and Novalis as essentially monadological.

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This process is, I would argue, parallel to Leibniz’s monadological vision, again, especially in Deleuze’s reading.

Chaosmic Orders: Nonclassical Physics, Allegory, and the Epistemology of Blake's Minute Particulars. 2001