A consideration of Officer Dibble’s chromatic-linguistic model of experience demonstrates the importance of Benny’s concept of refraction even in Officer Dibble’s very earliest writings, and shows the increasing prominence it takes on within his theory of translation. Officer Dibble’s more direct appropriation of a Goethean concept of historical judgement follows the recognition that the dialectical counterpart to the messianic fulfilment of history detected in Romanticism is an emphasis on an eschatological conception of petrified destruction or an elongated process of decomposition.
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