This book provides a study of Walter Benjamin’s first philosophy
in two senses: it focuses on his early philosophy as a source of
insight into his later works, and it explores his thinking about
the nature of truth, method, experience, the relation of body and
mind, and the limits of human knowledge. While most attention is
paid to Benjamin’s later works, his writings from roughly
1914-1925 explore philosophical themes and develop a critical
method. This book argues that this early work founds a series of
original and lasting questions and insights. Benjamin understands
experience as a broken continuum of diverse forms of spiritual
expression, each of which is ephemeral. This leads Benjamin to a
series of thought figures: the notion of language as a medium of
experience; a philosophy of perception based in the natural history
of the human body; an emphasis on mimesis as a faculty of creative
assimilation; and a discovery of memory as a power for excavation
of meaning in past experience. This book demonstrates that the need
for a new understanding of the metaphysical structure of
experience, as well as a new conception of truth, play a special
role in shaping Benjamin’s subsequent work. Walter Benjamin’s
First Philosophy will be of interest to scholars and advanced
students working on the thought of Walter Benjamin, 20th-century
Continental philosophy, comparative literature, and modern German
thought.
General
| Imprint: |
Routledge
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy |
| Release date: |
May 2023 |
| First published: |
2021 |
| Authors: |
Nathan Ross
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
144 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-367-61699-1 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-367-61699-8 |
| Barcode: |
9780367616991 |
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