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A Companion to the Works of Walter Benjamin (Hardcover)
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A Companion to the Works of Walter Benjamin (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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An advanced introduction to Benjamin's work and its actualization
for our own times. Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) has emerged as one
of the leading cultural critics of the twentieth century. His work
encompasses aesthetics, metaphysical language and narrative
theories, German literary history, philosophies of history, the
intersection of Marxism and Messianic thought, urban topography,
and the development of photography and film. Benjamin defined the
task of the critic as one that blasts endangered moments of the
past out of the continuum of history so that they attain new
significance. This volume of new essays employs this principle of
actualization as its methodological program in offering a new
advanced introduction to Benjamin's own work. The essays analyze
Benjamin's central texts, themes, terminologies, and genres in
their original contexts while simultaneously situating them in new
parameters, such as contemporary media, memory culture,
constructions of gender, postcoloniality, and theories of urban
topographies. The Companion brings together an international group
of established and emerging scholars to explicate Benjamin's
actuality from a multidisciplinary perspective. Designed for
audiences interested in literary criticism, cultural studies, and
neighboring disciplines, the volume serves as a stimulus for new
debates about Benjamin's intellectual legacy today. Contributors:
Wolfgang Bock, Willi Bolle, Dianne Chisholm, Adrian Daub, Dominik
Finkelde, Eric Jarosinski, Lutz Koepnick, Vivian Liska, Karl Ivan
Solibakke, Marc de Wilde, Bernd Witte Rolf J. Goebel is
Distinguished Professor of German and Chair of the Department of
WorldLanguages and Cultures at the University of Alabama in
Huntsville.
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