On the Delineation of Choice and Decision in Benjamin's "Goethe's Elective Affinities"
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Abstract
This paper will attempt to approach, through a reading of Benjamin's essay Goethe's elective affinities, the question of the relation between the possibility of the instant of decision or the madness of decision 1 and its relation to what might be called a law of calculation or tragic fate. 2 The concept of the irreducibility of decision, as Derrida has argued, opens immediately on a major problematic or aporia: if the absolute singularity of decision, a singularity which cuts itself off from all rational calculation, is what determines any decision worthy of the name, then how does one know that there has been a decision, that a certain calculation has been broken or interrupted? How does one know, in other words, that a decision is truly a decision and not a mere repetition of an already decided fate, of a decision that has already decided? Heidegger, in the third volume of the Nietzsche lectures, poses this problem of wresting or delimiting the genuine decision from out of its relation to its counterfeit thus:
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