Walter Benjamin : the colour of experience / Howard Caygill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caygill, Howard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.

Benjamin, Walter.

Experience--History.

Experience.

History.

Philosophy of experience.

Physical Description:

xv, 165 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

Summary:

In this major reinterpretation, Howard Caygill argues that all of Benjamin's work is characterized by its focus on a concept of experience derived from Kant but applied by Benjamin to objects as diverse as urban experience, visual art, literature and philosophy. The book analyzes the development of Benjamin's concept of experience in his early writings showing that it emerges from an engagement with visual experience, and in particular the experience of colour. By representing Benjamin as primarily a thinker of the visual field, Caygill is able to bring forward previously neglected texts on inscription and the visual field and to cast many of his more familiar texts, for instance the "Work of Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction" in a new light.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-162) and index.

ISBN:

0415089581

041508959X

OCLC:

36817186