Benjamin's ghosts : interventions in contemporary literary and cultural theory / edited by Gerhard Richter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Richter, Gerhard, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.

Benjamin, Walter.

Physical Description:

xiii, 365 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2002.

Summary:

This book explores the implications for today' s critical concerns of the work of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), one of the most powerful and influential thinkers of the 20th century.

Contents:

Thinking images / Rainer Nägele

Benjamin and cinema: not a one-way street / Miriam Hansen

"The dynamite of a tenth of a second": Benjamin's revolutionary Messianism in silent film comedy / Tom McCall

Aura reconsidered: Benjamin and contemporary visual culture / Lutz Koepnick

Under construction: Walter Benjamin's "The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction" / Eva Geulen

Suicitation: Benjamin and Freud / Laurence A. Rickels

Genuine obscurity shadows the semblance whose obliteration promises redemption: reflections on Benjamin's "Goethe's elective affinites" / Stanley Corngold

Portrait of melancholy (Benjamin, Warburg, Panofsky) / Beatrice Hanssen

History of the delayed disintegration of phenomena / Fritz Breithaupt

Virtual Paris: Benjamin's Arcades project / Kevin McLaughlin

Aesthetics? Philosophy of history? Theology! / Norbert Bolz

Tragedy and prophecy in Benjamin's Origin of the German mourning play / Peter Fenves

Ornament, constellation, flurries / Bettine Menke

Eros and language: Benjamin's Kraus essay / Sigrid Wiegel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-362) and index.

ISBN:

0804741255

0804741263

OCLC:

48944384