Reading Walter Benjamin
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Reading Walter Benjamin
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Author : Richard J. Lane
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2005-07-22
Reading Walter Benjamin written by Richard J. Lane and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book explores the persistence of absolute in Benjamin's work by sketching out the relationship between philosphy and theology apparent in his diverse writings, from the early youth movement essays to the later books, essays and fragments. Lane examines Benjamin from two main perspectives: a history-of-ideas approach situating Benjamin in relation to the new German-Jewish thinking at the turn of the twentieth-century, as well as the German youth movements, Surrealism and the "Georgekreis"; and a conceptual approach examining more critical issues in relation to Benjamin and Kant, modern aesthetics and narrative order.
Fire Alarm
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Author : Michael Löwy
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2016-10-11
Fire Alarm written by Michael Löwy and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-11 with Philosophy categories.
Revolutionary critic of the philosophy of progress, nostalgic of the past yet dreaming of the future, romantic partisan of materialism - Walter Benjamin is in every sense of the word an "unclassifiable" philosopher. His essay "On the Concept of History" was written in a state of urgency, as he attempted to escape the Gestapo in 1940, before finally committing suicide. In this scrupulous, clear and fascinating examination of this essay, Michael Lwy argues that it remains one of the most important philosophical and political writings of the twentieth century. Looking in detail at Benjamin's celebrated but often mysterious text, and restoring the philosophical, theological and political context, Lwy highlights the complex relationship between redemption and revolution in Benjamin's philosophy of history.
Constellations Of Reading
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Author : Carlo Salzani
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Constellations Of Reading written by Carlo Salzani and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with categories.
Fire Alarm
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Author : Michael Lowy
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2016-10-04
Fire Alarm written by Michael Lowy and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-04 with Philosophy categories.
This illuminating study of Benjamin’s final essay helps unlock the mystery of this great philosopher Revolutionary critic of the philosophy of progress, nostalgic of the past yet dreaming of the future, romantic partisan of materialism—Walter Benjamin is in every sense of the word an “unclassifiable” philosopher. His essay “On the Concept of History” was written in a state of urgency, as he attempted to escape the Gestapo in 1940, before finally committing suicide. In this scrupulous, clear and fascinating examination of this essay, Michael Löwy argues that it remains one of the most important philosophical and political writings of the twentieth century. Looking in detail at Benjamin’s celebrated but often mysterious text, and restoring the philosophical, theological and political context, Löwy highlights the complex relationship between redemption and revolution in Benjamin’s philosophy of history.
Body And Image Space
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Author : Sigrid Weigel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Body And Image Space written by Sigrid Weigel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Philosophy, Modern categories.
Constellations Of Reading
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Author : Carlo Salzani
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2009
Constellations Of Reading written by Carlo Salzani and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Literary Criticism categories.
How to read Walter Benjamin today? This book argues that the proper way is through an approach which recognizes and respects his own peculiar theorization of the act of reading and the politics of interpretation that this entails. The approach must be figural, that is, focused on images, and driven by the notion of actualization. Figural reading, in the very sui generis Benjaminian way, understands figures as constellations, whereby an image of the past juxtaposes them with an image of the present and is thus actualized. To apply this method to Benjamin's own work means first to identify some figures. The book singles out the Flâneur, the Detective, the Prostitute and the Ragpicker, and then sets them alongside a contemporary account of the same figure: the Flâneur in Juan Goytisolo's Landscapes after the Battle (1982), the Detective in Paul Auster's New York Trilogy (1987), the Prostitute in Dacia Maraini's Dialogue between a Prostitute and her Client (1973), and the Ragpicker in Mudrooroo's The Mudrooroo/Müller Project (1993). The book thereby, on the one hand, analyses the politics of reading Benjamin today and, on the other, sets his work against a variety of contemporary aesthetics and politics of interpretation.
The Book Of Nature
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Author : Matthew Sims
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
The Book Of Nature written by Matthew Sims and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with categories.
Reading The 21st Century
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Author : Stan Persky
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2012
Reading The 21st Century written by Stan Persky and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Literary Criticism categories.
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Working With Walter Benjamin
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Author : Andrew Benjamin
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2013-11-18
Working With Walter Benjamin written by Andrew Benjamin and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-18 with Philosophy categories.
This book provides a highly original approach to the writings of the twentieth-century German philosopher Walter Benjamin by one of his most distinguished readers. It develops the idea of 'working with' Benjamin, seeking both to read his corpus and to put it to work - to show how a reading of Benjamin can open up issues that may not themselves be immediately at stake in his texts. The defining elements in Benjamin's writings that Andrew Benjamin isolates - history, experience, translation, technical reproducibility and politics - are put to work; that is, their utility is established in engaging the works of others. The question is how utility is understood. As Andrew Benjamin argues, utility involves demonstrating the different ways in which Benjamin is a central thinker within the project of understanding the nature of modernity. This is best achieved by noting connections and points of differentiation between his work and the writings of Adorno and Heidegger. However, the more demanding project is that 'working with' Benjamin necessitates deploying the implicit assumptions within his writings as well as demanding of his formulations more than is provided by their initial presentation. What is at stake is not the application of Benjamin's thought. Rather what counts is its use.Working with Benjamin engages with the themes central to Benjamin's work with deftness, daring and critical insight while at the same time situating those themes within current academic and cultural debates.
Benjamin S Ground
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Author : Rainer Nägele
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Benjamin S Ground written by Rainer Nägele and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with History categories.
German philosopher and literary critic Walter Benjamin is considered to be the most important critic in the German language between the two wars, and his importance is growing. His thought, formed by Kant and the religious-philosophical current, was metaphysically oriented and later showed an inclination toward Marxism. The seven essays in Benjamin’s Ground involve a praxis of reading that acknowledges the radical difference and otherness of the textual order. This volume offers a textual analysis by "expert readers who would not be afraid to follow the text, although not in the name of some ‘approach’ or ‘method,’ but on that nameless path of the text that leads to the point of resistance." according to editor and author Rainer nagele.