Walter Benjamin : an aesthetic of redemption / Richard Wolin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolin, Richard, author.

Series:

Weimar and now.

Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism ; 7.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

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

Benjamin, Walter.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (lviii, 316 pages) illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1994]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Few twentieth-century thinkers have proven as influential as Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish philosopher and cultural and literary critic. Richard Wolin's book remains among the clearest and most insightful introductions to Benjamin's writings, offering a philosophically rich exposition of his complex relationship to Adorno, Brecht, Jewish Messianism, and Western Marxism. Wolin provides nuanced interpretations of Benjamin's widely studied writings on Baudelaire, historiography, and art in the age of mechanical reproduction. In a new Introduction written especially for this edition, Wolin discusses the unfinished Arcades Project, as well as recent tendencies in the reception of Benjamin's work and the relevance of his ideas to contemporary debates about modernity and postmodernity.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

A Note on the Translations. A Note on Terminology

INTRODUCTION to the Revised Edition

Chapter One. ORIGINS

Chapter Two. THE PATH TO TRAUERSPIEL

Chapter Three. IDEAS AND THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE

Chapter Four. FROM MESSIANISM TO MATERIALISM

Chapter Five. BENJAMIN AND BRECHT

Chapter Six. THE ADORNO-BENJAMIN DISPUTE

Chapter Seven. BENJAMIN’S MATERIALIST THEORY OF EXPERIENCE

Chapter Eight. “A L'ÉCART DE TOUS LES COURANTS”

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Columbia University Press, 1982.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520914308

0520914309

9780585181349

0585181349

OCLC:

1163879316