Introducing Walter Benjamin. (2014)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Introducing Walter Benjamin. (2014)
- Main Title:
- Introducing Walter Benjamin
- Other Titles:
- Walter Benjamin
- Uniform Title:
- Walter Benjamin for beginners.
- Further Information:
- Note: Howard Caygill, Alex Coles & Andrezej Klimowski.
- Authors:
- Caygill, Howard
Coles, Alex
Klimowski, Andrzej - Other Names:
- Caygill, Howard
- Contents:
- Title Page; Copyright; Contents; The Passionate Critic; Snapshots of A Berlin Childhood; The Peripatetic Philosophy Student; Kant and Neo-Kantianism; Apriorism; Phenomenology; Pro- Or Anti-zionism?; "What were you doing on 4 August 1914?"; Betrayal and Revolution; How to Avoid Conscription; Friendship with Gershom Scholem; Greek Tragedy; Trauerspiel or Mourning Play; On Language; The Experience of Freedom; The Experience of Colour; German Romantic Art Criticism; The Concept of Ruination; Parental Strife; The Failed Editor; Conflict with the George Circle; The Story of Elective Affinities. Benjamin's AffinitiesThe Task of the Critic; The Task of the Translator; The Bookman; ... And the Media Man; Riegl Versus Wölfflin; The Transition from Haptic to Optic; The Aesthetics of Disintegration; Riegl's Structuralism; The Task of the Art Critic; Children's Books; Line or Colour?; The Optic of Technology; The Collector; Benjamin the Nomad; Introduction to Marxism; Mediation; Reification; The Bolshevik Verdict; The Porosity of Naples; Spatial and Temporal Porosity; A Dictator's Visit; Introducing the Arcade; Looking Ahead ... ; Past, Present and Future; Moscow Diary; Sovereign Violence. The Religion of CapitalismThe Origin of German Tragic Drama; What is "Baroque"?; Political Theologies; A Nihilistic Toy-box; Symbol, Allegory and Ruination; A University Scandal; A Fairytale for Academics; One-way Street; Scenes from One-way Street: Writing; ... And Technology; Benjamin, theTitle Page; Copyright; Contents; The Passionate Critic; Snapshots of A Berlin Childhood; The Peripatetic Philosophy Student; Kant and Neo-Kantianism; Apriorism; Phenomenology; Pro- Or Anti-zionism?; "What were you doing on 4 August 1914?"; Betrayal and Revolution; How to Avoid Conscription; Friendship with Gershom Scholem; Greek Tragedy; Trauerspiel or Mourning Play; On Language; The Experience of Freedom; The Experience of Colour; German Romantic Art Criticism; The Concept of Ruination; Parental Strife; The Failed Editor; Conflict with the George Circle; The Story of Elective Affinities. Benjamin's AffinitiesThe Task of the Critic; The Task of the Translator; The Bookman; ... And the Media Man; Riegl Versus Wölfflin; The Transition from Haptic to Optic; The Aesthetics of Disintegration; Riegl's Structuralism; The Task of the Art Critic; Children's Books; Line or Colour?; The Optic of Technology; The Collector; Benjamin the Nomad; Introduction to Marxism; Mediation; Reification; The Bolshevik Verdict; The Porosity of Naples; Spatial and Temporal Porosity; A Dictator's Visit; Introducing the Arcade; Looking Ahead ... ; Past, Present and Future; Moscow Diary; Sovereign Violence. The Religion of CapitalismThe Origin of German Tragic Drama; What is "Baroque"?; Political Theologies; A Nihilistic Toy-box; Symbol, Allegory and Ruination; A University Scandal; A Fairytale for Academics; One-way Street; Scenes from One-way Street: Writing; ... And Technology; Benjamin, the Surrealist; Teddy and Bert; The Frankfurt Institute; Dissimilar Similarities; "The Hard Thing Gives Way"; "The Presence of the past, Now"; The Art of Montage; The Dark Age Begins; The Great Dictator ... ; ... Seen as Charlie Chaplin; The Author as Producer; The Age of Reproduction. The Painter and the Camera-manMass Reproduction; History of the Aura; The Decay of the Aura; Uncertainties and Ambiguities; Criticisms of Benjamin's Position; Kafka and Benjamin's Mysticism; The Kabbala; Which Benjamin?; Origins of the Arcades Project; A Central Architectural Motif; A Marathon Project; Materialist Ventriloquism; The Maverick Historian; Phantasmagoria and Dialectical Images; Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century; 1. Fourier, or the Arcades; 2. Daguerre, or the Panoramas; 3. Grandville, or the World Exhibitions; 4. Louis Philippe, or the Interior. 5. Baudelaire, or the Streets of Paris6. Haussmann, or the Barricades; Troubles with the Institute; The Exile in Danger; Last Exit ... ; Theology and History; Samples From the "Theses"; Time Runs Out ... ; In Transit; The Last Day; Further Reading; Biographies of Walter Benjamin; Acknowledgements; The Authors. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- London : Icon Books
- Publication Date:
- 2014
2014 - Copyright Date:
- 2014
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (176 pages), illustrations
- Subjects:
- 193
Philosophy, German -- Comic books, strips, etc
Jewish philosophers -- Germany -- Biography
Philosophie allemande -- Bandes dessinées
Philosophes juifs -- Allemagne -- Biographies
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Jewish philosophers
Philosophy, German
Germany
Biographies
Comics (Graphic works)
Biographies
Influence - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 1785780190
9781785780196 - Related ISBNs:
- 1848316925
9781848316928 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-175).
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.791884
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