Walter Benjamin - The Colour of Experience (Hardcover)

The writings of the Weimar philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin continue to provoke controversy in the fields of philosophy, critical theory and cultural history. In this reinterpretation, the author argues that all of Benjamin's work is characterized by its focus on a concept of experience derived from Kant but applied by Benjamin to objects as diverse as urban experience, visual art, literature and philosophy. The book analyzes the development of Benjamin's concept of experience in his early writings showing that it emerges from an engagement with visual experience, and in particular the experience of colour. By representing Benjamin as primarily a thinker of the visual field, the author brings forward previously neglected texts on inscription and the visual field and aims to cast many of his more familiar texts, for instance the "Work of Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction" in a new light.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 1997
First published:	1997
Authors:	Howard Caygill
Dimensions:	280 x 210 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	181
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-08958-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Promotions
LSN:	0-415-08958-1
Barcode:	9780415089586

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