The Arcades Project - Operi

these values originated, but of the one in which they survive. In this way they
serve the apotheosis of the latter , barbaric as it may be.
[N5a,7]
To determine how the concept of culture arose, what meaning it has had in
different periods, and what needs its institution corresponded to. It could, insofar
as it signifies the sum of "cultural riches," turn out to be of recent origin; certainly
it is not yet found, for example, in the cleric of the early Middle Ages who waged
his war of annihilation against the teachings of antiquity. [N 6,1]
Michelet-an author who, wherever he is quoted, makes the reader forget the
book in which the quotation appears. [N6,2]
To be underlined: the painstaking delineation of the scene in the first writings on
social problems and charity, like Naville, De la Chariti ligale; Fregier, Des Classes
dangereuses; and various others. [N6,3]
"'I cannot insist too strongly on the fact that, for an enlightened materialist like
Lafargue, economic determinism is not the 'absolutely perfect instrument' which
'can provide the key to all the problems of history. m Andre Breton, Position
politique du surrealisme (Paris