Overview

This collection shows how extraordinarily substantial were the theoretical footholds which Walter Benjamin supplied. The contributors engage with Benjamin on a number of levels, with essays on historical understanding versus historicism, a look at gender and dialectical images, the space of the city, the sources of Judaism and the aesthetics of conflict. Also analysed are Benjamin's artwork, the novel, the anthropology and philosophy of history, 'fate and character', the baroque and Benjamin the intellectual.

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Author:   Laura Marcus ,  Lynda Nead ,  Laura Marcus ,  Lynda Nead
Publisher:   Lawrence & Wishart Ltd
Imprint:   Lawrence & Wishart Ltd
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.00cm
Weight:   0.281kg
ISBN:  

9780853158639

ISBN 10:   0853158630
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   20 November 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

The measure of the possible, the weight of the real and the heat of the moment - Benjamin's actuality today, Irving Wohlfarth; from gender images to dialectical images in Benjamin's writings, Sigried Wiegel; the city in pieces, Victor Burgin; Benjamin the intellectual, Zygmunt Bauman; Walter Benjamin - out of the sources of modern Judaism, Gillian Rose; a communicative disclosure of the past - on the relation between anthropology and philosophy of history in Walter Benjamin, Axl Honneth; Shoah, remembrance and the abeyance of fate - Walter Benjamin, feminism and cultural analysis, Andrew Benjamin; aesthetics and anaesthetics - Walter Benjamin's artwork essay reconsidered, Susan Buck-Morris; experience without a subject - Benjamin and the novel, Martin Jay; the aesthetics of conflict, Julian Roberts; the judgement of the angels, Iain Chambers.

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