In this incisive new work, Eli Friedlander demonstrates that Walter
Benjamin's entire corpus, from early to late, comprises a rigorous
and sustained philosophical questioning of how human beings belong
to nature. Across seemingly heterogeneous writings, Friedlander
argues, Benjamin consistently explores what the natural in the
human comes to, that is, how nature is transformed, actualized,
redeemed, and overcome in human existence. The book progresses
gradually from Benjamin's philosophically fundamental writings on
language and nature to his Goethean empiricism, from the
presentation of ideas to the primal history of the Paris arcades.
Friedlander's careful analysis brings out how the idea of natural
history inflects Benjamin's conception of the work of art and its
critique, his diagnosis of the mythical violence of the legal
order, his account of the body and of action, of material culture
and technology, as well as his unique vision of historical
materialism. Featuring revelatory new readings of Benjamin's major
works that differ, sometimes dramatically, from prevailing
interpretations, this book reveals the internal coherence and
philosophical force of Benjamin's thought.
General
Imprint: |
Stanford University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Cultural Memory in the Present |
Release date: |
2024 |
First published: |
2024 |
Authors: |
Eli Friedlander
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
344 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5036-3770-2 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-5036-3770-0 |
Barcode: |
9781503637702 |
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