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Walter Benjamin and history / edited by Andrew Benjamin.
LIBRA D16.8 .W29 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Walter Benjamin studies series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History--Philosophy.
- History.
- Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.
- Benjamin, Walter.
- Physical Description:
- 260 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Continuum, [2005]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 1 The Supposition of the Aura: The Now, the Then, and Modernity / Georges Didi-Huberman 3
- 2 The Shortness of History, or Photography In Nuce: Benjamin's Attenuation of the Negative / David Ferris 19
- 3 'Now': Walter Benjamin on Historical Time / Werner Hamacher 38
- 4 Down the K. Hole: Walter Benjamin's Destructive Land-surveying of History / Stephanie Polsky 69
- 5 The Sickness of Tradition: Between Melancholia and Fetishism / Rebecca Comay 88
- 6 Trembling Contours: Kierkegaard-Benjamin-Brecht / Rainer Nagele 102
- 7 The Subject of History: The Temporality of Parataxis in Benjamin's Historiography / Dimitris Vardoulakis 118
- 8 Tradition as Injunction: Benjamin and the Critique of Historicisms / Philippe Simay 137
- 9 Boredom and Distraction: The Moods of Modernity / Andrew Benjamin 156
- 10 Walter Benjamin's Interior History / Charles Rice 171
- 11 What is the Matter with Architectural History? / Gevork Hartoonian 182
- 12 Messianic Epistemology: Thesis XV / Robert Gibbs 197
- 13 Non-messianic Political Theology in Benjamin's 'On the Concept of History' / Howard Caygill 215.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0826467458
- 0826467466
- OCLC:
- 62172922
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