Walter Benjamin and History.
Title:
Walter Benjamin and History.
Author:
Benjamin, Andrew.
ISBN:
9781847143303
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (269 pages)
Series:
Walter Benjamin Studies
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The Supposition of the Aura: The Now, the Then, and Modernity -- 2 The Shortness of History, or Photography In Nuce: Benjamin's Attenuation of the Negative -- 3 'Now': Walter Benjamin on Historical Time -- 4 Down the K. Hole: Walter Benjamin's Destructive Land-surveying of History -- 5 The Sickness of Tradition: Between Melancholia and Fetishism -- 6 Trembling Contours: Kierkegaard-Benjamin-Brecht -- 7 The Subject of History: The Temporality of Parataxis in Benjamin's Historiography -- 8 Tradition as Injunction: Benjamin and the Critique of Historicisms -- 9 Boredom and Distraction: The Moods of Modernity -- 10 Walter Benjamin's Interior History -- 11 What is the Matter with Architectural History? -- 12 Messianic Epistemology: Thesis XV -- 13 Non-messianic Political Theology in Benjamin's 'On the Concept of History' -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
Walter Benjamin's collection of fragments, Theses on the Philosophy of History, play a determining role in how his thought is understood, as well as in the debate about the interplay between politics, history and time. Walter Benjamin and History is the first volume to give access to the themes and problems raised by the Theses, providing valuable exegetical and historical work on the text. The essays collected here are all the work of noted Benjamin scholars, and pursue the themes central to the Theses.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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