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The Benjamin Files (Paperback)
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The Benjamin Files (Paperback)
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Loot Price R530
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Jameson's first full-length engagement with Walter Benjamin's work.
The Benjamin Files offers a comprehensive new reading of all of
Benjamin's major works and a great number of his shorter book
reviews, notes and letters. Its premise is that Benjamin was an
anti-philosophical, anti-systematic thinker whose conceptual
interests also felt the gravitational pull of his vocation as a
writer. What resulted was a coexistence or variety of language
fields and thematic codes which overlapped and often seemed to
contradict each other: a view which will allow us to clarify the
much-debated tension in his works between the mystical or
theological side of Benjamin and his political or historical
inclination. The three-way tug of war over his heritage between
adherents of his friends Scholem, Adorno and Brecht, can also be
better grasped from this position, which gives the Brechtian
standpoint more due than most influential academic studies.
Benjamin's corpus is an anticipation of contemporary theory in the
priority it gives language and representation over philosophical or
conceptual unity; and its political motivations are clarified by
attention to the omnipresence of History throughout his writing,
from the shortest articles to the most ambitious projects. His
explicit program-"to transfer the crisis into the heart of
language" or, in other words, to detect class struggle at work in
the most minute literary phenomena-requires the reader to translate
the linguistic or representational literary issues that concerned
him back into the omnipresent but often only implicitly political
ones. But the latter are those of another era, to which we must
gain access, to use one of Benjamin's favorite expressions.
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