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Walter Benjamin and the Antinomies of Tradition (Paperback, New)
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Walter Benjamin and the Antinomies of Tradition (Paperback, New)
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Few modern thinkers have been as convinced of the necessity of
recovering the past in order to redeem the present as Walter
Benjamin (1892-1940). Benjamin at once mourned and celebrated what
he took to be an inevitable liquidation of traditional culture, and
his determination to think both of these attitudes through to their
conclusions lends his work its peculiar honesty, along with its
paradoxical, antinomial coherence. In a landmark interpretation of
the whole of Benjamin's career, John McCole demonstrates a way of
understanding Benjamin that both contextualizes and addresses the
complexities and ambiguities of his texts. Working with Pierre
Bourdieu's concept of the "intellectual field," McCole traces
Benjamin's deep ambivalence about cultural tradition through the
longterm project-an immanent critique of German idealist and
romantic aesthetics-which unites his writings. McCole builds a
sustained reading of Benjamin's intellectual development which
sheds new light on the formative role of early
influences-particularly his participation in the pre-World War I
German youth movement and the orthodox discourse of German
intellectual culture-and shows how Benjamin later extended the
strategies he learned within these contexts during key encounters
with Weimar modernism, surrealism, and the fiction of Proust. The
fullest account of Benjamin available in English, this lucid and
penetrating book will be welcomed by intellectual historians,
literary theorists and critics, historians of German literature,
and Continental philosophers.
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