Summary of Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts

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#1 The inexpressible is contained in the expressed. This idea gets less attention than his more reverential Whereof one cannot speak thereof, one must be silent, but it is the deeper idea.

#2 I had spent a lifetime dedicated to the belief that words are not enough. I argued that words do more than simply name things. I read aloud to you the opening of Philosophical Investigations.

#3 It was difficult for me to ask others to use different pronouns when I couldn’t even bring myself to ask for them to use mine. I was ashamed for the person who kept making all the wrong assumptions and had to be corrected, but who couldn’t be corrected because the words weren’t good enough.

#4 The story of Barnes and Stein, who preferred to say they just loved each other, brings to mind art historian T. J. Clark’s defense of his interest in the eighteenth-century painter Nicolas Poussin.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 30, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822552289

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Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The inexpressible is contained in the expressed. This idea gets less attention than his more reverential Whereof one cannot speak thereof, one must be silent, but it is the deeper idea.

#2

I had spent a lifetime dedicated to the belief that words are not enough. I argued that words do more than simply name things. I read aloud to you the opening of Philosophical Investigations.

#3

It was difficult for me to ask others to use different pronouns when I couldn’t even bring myself to ask for them to use mine. I was ashamed for the person who kept making all the wrong assumptions and had to be corrected, but who couldn’t be corrected because the words weren’t good enough.

#4

The story of Barnes and Stein, who preferred to say they just loved each other, brings to mind art historian T. J. Clark’s defense of his interest in