Author : David S. Ferris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,70 MB
Release : 2008-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521864585
An accessible overview of the German writer's life, works, intellectual, historical and cultural background, and the reception of his work.
Author : David S. Ferris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,53 MB
Release : 2004-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521797245
This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the thought of the highly influential twentieth-century critic and theorist Walter Benjamin. The volume provides examinations of the different aspects of Benjamin's work that have had a significant effect on contemporary critical and historical thought. Topics discussed by experts in the field include Benjamin's relation to the avant-garde movements of his time, his theories on language and mimesis, modernity, his significance and relevance to modern cultural studies, and his autobiographical writings. Additional material includes a guide to further reading and a chronology.
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This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the thought of the highly influential twentieth-century critic and theorist Walter Benjamin. The volume provides examinations of the different aspects of Benjamin's work that have had a significant effect on contemporary critical and historical thought. Topics discussed by experts in the field include Benjamin's relation to the avant-garde movements of his time, his theories on language and mimesis, modernity, his significance and relevance to modern cultural studies, and his autobiographical writings. Additional material includes a guide to further reading and a chronology.
Author : Rita Copeland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 22,89 MB
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521862299
Traces the development of allegory in the European and American tradition from antiquity to the modern era.
Author : Carlo Salzani
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 38,92 MB
Release : 2021-07-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1527573168
The striking actuality of Walter Benjamin’s work does not rest on a supposed “usefulness” of his philosophy for current concerns, but rather on the high “legibility” to which his oeuvre has come in the present. Indeed, this legibility is a function of critique, which unearths the truth-content of a work in a constellation of reading with the present, and assures thereby that the work lives on. Following this methodological tenet, this book approaches Benjamin’s work with two foci: the actuality of his critique of violence, a central and unavoidable topic in the contemporary political-philosophical debate, and the actuality of his critique of experience, which perhaps is not as conspicuous as that of his critique of violence but constitutes, nonetheless, the bedrock upon which his whole philosophy rests.
Author : Richard J. Lane
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 11,77 MB
Release : 2005-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780719064371
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.
Author : Howard Eiland
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 46,78 MB
Release : 2014-01-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674726200
Walter Benjamin was perhaps the twentieth century's most elusive intellectual. His writings defy categorization, and his improvised existence has proven irresistible to mythologizers. In a major new biography, Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings present a comprehensive portrait of the man and his times, as well as extensive commentary on his work.
Author : Tyrus Miller
Publisher : Edinburgh Critical Studies in
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 30,69 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748640188
This is a single-volume introduction to the important connection of Frankfurt School thought and modernist culture. This book provides a focused introduction to the Frankfurt School's important attempts to relate the social, political, and philosophical conditions of modernity to innovations in 20th-century art, literature, and culture. Individual chapters include detailed discussions of Benjamin, Adorno, Marcuse, and a survey of later Frankfurt School influenced thinkers, and discuss the ideas of each figure with an emphasis on specific artistic media or contexts. This study provides a revisionary view of Frankfurt School theory and modernist culture, as well as a clear, thorough, and relevant survey of major ideas and figures. It introduces well-studied major figures such as Benjamin and Adorno in a new light, while connecting their ideas with problems in modernist art and culture.
Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 17,34 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674022874
"In this book Benjamin reveals Baudelaire as a social poet of the very first rank. More than a series of studies of Baudelaire, these essays show the extent to which Benjamin identifies with the poet and enable him to explore his own notion of heroism."--BOOK JACKET.
