| Description |
260 p. |
| Series |
Walter Benjamin studies series |
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Walter Benjamin studies series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Andrew Benjamin -- The supposition of the aura: the now, the then, and modernity / Georges Didi-Huberman -- The shortness of history, or photography In Nuce: Benjamin's attenuation of the negative / David Ferris -- 'Now': Walter Benjamin on historical time / Werner Hamacher -- Down the K. hole: Walter Benjamin's destructive land-surveying of history / Stephanie Polsky -- The sickness of tradition: between melancholia and fetishism / Rebecca Comay -- Trembling contours: Kierkegaard-Benjamin-Brecht / Rainer Nagele -- The subject of history: the temporality of parataxis in Benjamin's historiography / Dimitris Vardoulakis -- Tradition as injunction: Benjamin and the critique of historicisms / Philippe Simay -- Boredom and distraction: the moods of modernity / Andrew Benjamin -- Walter Benjamin's interior history / Charles Rice -- What is the matter with architectural history? / Gevork Hartoonian -- Messianic epistemology: Thesis XV / Robert Gibbs -- Non-messianic political theology in Benjamin's 'On the concept of history' / Howard Caygill. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.
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History -- Philosophy.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Benjamin, Andrew E.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
0826467458 (hbk.) |
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0826467466 (pbk.) |
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