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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.
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.
This collection of essays by scholars and artists of different
disciplines and from different countries is designed to navigate
the labyrinth of contemporary aesthetic ideologies with the aim of
reassessing how we read - both the way in which texts touch us, and
we them. Theory has transformed texts into mute interlocutors
exposed to infinite indeterminacy. While the response to this sense
of silence that undermines meaning is often informed by a nostalgia
for older notions of close reading, the essays in this volume work
towards a re-evaluation of key subjects such as reader, writer and
text. The contributors engage with topics such as digital books,
popular culture, alternative ways of book-making, visual-verbal
collaborations and thematic explorations of the hand in literature.
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