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Benjamin's Ghosts - Interventions in Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory (Hardcover)
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Benjamin's Ghosts - Interventions in Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory (Hardcover)
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This book explores the implications for today's critical concerns
of the work of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). Although his writings
are considered to be among the most powerful and suggestive
theoretical enterprises of the twentieth century, his ideas are
strangely resistant to cooptation by the established doctrines of
various critical programs. The innovative essays gathered here
engage this resistance by examining the notion of the ghostly in
Benjamin's work.
The contributors show that the urgent and haunting truths Benjamin
offers point toward new forms of responsibility, even as they
withdraw from straightforward meaning and transparent forms of
expression. These truths reside in a figurative elsewhere, a
ghostly space that his texts delimit but never fully inhabit, and
these essays seek to do justice to the ghosts of Benjamin that are
already on board with us.
Through close textual readings and thoughtful contextualizations,
internationally known Benjamin scholars engage a wide range of
issues, including: the status of the image in Benjamin's literary
reflections and in his meditations on cinema and visual culture;
abiding Benjaminian notions of messianism, aura, reproducibility,
semblance, and melancholy; Benjamin's relation to Freud; his
innovative rethinking of history, virtuality, and translation; and
his reflections on tragedy and prophecy, the geometrical dimensions
of writing, and the relation between eros and language.
The contributors are Norbert Bolz, Fritz Breithaupt, Stanley
Corngold, Peter Fenves, Eva Geulen, Miriam Hansen, Beatrice
Hanssen, Lutz Koepnick, Tom McCall, Kevin McLaughlin, Bettine
Menke, Rainer Nagele, Gerhard Richter, Laurence Rickels, and Sigrid
Weigel.
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