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Reading Walter Benjamin - Writing Through the Catastrophe (Paperback)
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Reading Walter Benjamin - Writing Through the Catastrophe (Paperback)
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Loot Price R589
Discovery Miles 5 890
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'Reading Walter Benjamin' explores the persistence of absolute in
Benjamin's work by sketching-out the relationship between philosphy
and theology apparent in his diverse writings, from the early
youth-movement essays to the later books, essays and fragments. The
book examines Benjamin from two main perspectives: a
history-of-ideas approach situating Benjamin in relation to the new
German-Jewish thinking at the turn of the twentieth-century, as
well as the German youth movements, Surrealism and the
'Georgekreis'; and a conceptual approach examining more critical
issues in relation to Benjamin and Kant, modern aesthetics and
narrative order. Chapters cover: 'Kulturpessimismus' and the new
thinking; metaphysics of youth: Wyneken and 'Rausch'; history:
surreal Messianism; Goethe and the 'Georgekreis'; Kant's
experience; casting the work of art; disrupting textual order; and
exile and the time of crisis. The book uses new translations of
Benjamin's essays, fragments and his 'Arcades Project', and makes
substantial reference to previously untranslated material. Lane's
text allows the non-specialist entry into complex areas of critical
theory, simultaneously offering original readings of Benjamin and
twentieth-century arts and literature. -- .
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