The Cambridge companion to Walter Benjamin / edited by David S. Ferris.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ferris, David S., 1954- editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940--Criticism and interpretation.

Benjamin, Walter.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 247 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the work and 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, the form of the work of art, his theories on language and mimesis, modernity, his relation to Brecht and the Frankfurt School, his significance and relevance to modern cultural studies, his formative interpretation of Romanticism, and his autobiographical writings. The volume is aimed at readers who may be coming to Benjamin for the first time or who have some knowledge of Benjamin but would like to know more about the issues and concepts central to his work. Additional material includes a guide to further reading and a chronology.

Contents:

Walter Benjamin and the European avant-garde / Michael Jennings

Art forms / Jan Mieszkowski

Language and mimesis in Walter Benjamin's work / Beatrice Hanssen

Walter Benjamin's concept of cultural history / Howard Caygill

Benjamin's modernity / Andrew Benjamin

Benjamin and psychoanalysis / Sarah Ley Roff

Benjamin and the ambiguities of Romanticism / Rebecca Comay

Body politics: Benjamin's dialectical materialism between Brecht and the Frankfurt School / Rainer Nagele

Method and time: Benjamin;s dialectical images / Max Pensky

Benjamin's phantasmagoria: the Arcades Project / Margaret Cohen

Acts of self-portraiture: Benjamin's confessional and literary writings / Gerhard Richter.

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ISBN:

9780511999499 (ebook)

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