 | Joseph Daniel Sobol - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 292 pages
...decreasing. In consequence, we have no counsel, either for ourselves or for others. After all, counsel is less an answer to a question than a proposal concerning the continuation of a story which is just unfolding. To seek this counsel one would first have to be able to tell the story. . . . Counsel woven... | |
 | Robin Wagner-Pacifici - Political Science - 2000 - 300 pages
...contingency In every case the storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers. . . After all, counsel is less an answer to a question than a proposal concerning the continuation of a story which is just unfolding. To seek this counsel one would first have to be able to tell the story. (Walter Benjamin.... | |
 | Roger I. Simon, Sharon Rosenberg, Claudia Eppert - Education - 2000 - 272 pages
...information, but, as Walter Benjamin (1969) intimates, is also counsel for the witness. This "counsel is less an answer to a question than a proposal concerning the continuation of a story which is just unfolding" (86). But to seek and then hear this counsel, the witness would first have to be able to... | |
 | Michael McKeon - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 972 pages
...decreasing. In consequence we have no counsel either for ourselves or for others. After all, counsel is less an answer to a question than a proposal concerning the continuation of a story which is just unfolding. To seek this counsel one would first have to be able to tell the story. (Quite apart from... | |
 | Steven E. Aschheim - Philosophy - 2001 - 452 pages
...the practical aspects of such judgments. According to Benjamin, the counsel that the story provides "is less an answer to a question than a proposal concerning the continuation of a story, which is just unfolding." As human beings, our judgments are not mere reflections on things past; they are important... | |
 | David Lyle Jeffrey - Religion - 2003 - 300 pages
...that in a good traditional storyteller, the product is a kind of wisdom literature in which "counsel is less an answer to a question than a proposal concerning the continuation of a story which is just unfolding" (86). 41. My own imagination suggests to me St. John of the Cross: The Father utters one... | |
 | Wadda C. Ríos-Font - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 284 pages
...old-fashioned ring, this is because the communicability of experience is decreasing. . . . After all, counsel is less an answer to a question than a proposal concerning the continuation of a story which is just unfolding. (86) The story is a unit that the reader can comprehend and repeat, and "the more completely... | |
 | Maria Tatar - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 276 pages
...case," Benjamin points out, "the storyteller is a person who has counsel for his readers. . . . Counsel is less an answer to a question than a proposal concerning the continuation of a story which is just unfolding."10 As tellers weave their tales, they also point to different possibilities and destinies,... | |
 | Mieke Bal - Criticism - 2004 - 402 pages
...decreasing. In consequence we have no counsel either for ourselves or for others. After all, counsel is less an answer to a question than a proposal concerning the continuation of a story which is just unfolding. To seek this counsel one would first have to be able to tell the story. (Quite apart from... | |
 | Peter C. Seixas - History - 2004 - 284 pages
...stories as matters of 'counsel.' In his essay 'The Storyteller,' Walter Benjamin referred to counsel as 'less an answer to a question than a proposal concerning the continuation of a story which is just unfolding.'14 For Benjamin, in order to seek and receive counsel, one would first have to be able to... | |
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After all, counsel is less an answer to a question than a proposal concerning the continuation of a story which is just unfolding. 
