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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777009903321

Autore

Benjamin Andrew

Titolo

Walter Benjamin and History [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Continuum International Publishing, 2005

ISBN

1-281-29887-5

9786611298876

1-84714-330-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Collana

Walter Benjamin Studies

Disciplina

838/.91209

901

Soggetti

Benjamin, Walter

History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The Supposition of the Aura: The Now, the Then, and Modernity; 2 The Shortness of History, or Photography In Nuce: Benjamin's Attenuation of the Negative; 3 'Now': Walter Benjamin on Historical Time; 4 Down the K. Hole: Walter Benjamin's Destructive Land-surveying of History; 5 The Sickness of Tradition: Between Melancholia and Fetishism; 6 Trembling Contours: Kierkegaard-Benjamin-Brecht; 7 The Subject of History: The Temporality of Parataxis in Benjamin's Historiography

8 Tradition as Injunction: Benjamin and the Critique of Historicisms9 Boredom and Distraction: The Moods of Modernity; 10 Walter Benjamin's Interior History; 11 What is the Matter with Architectural History?; 12 Messianic Epistemology: Thesis XV; 13 Non-messianic Political Theology in Benjamin's 'On the Concept of History'; Notes; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The first book to examine in detail Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History Benjamin's collection of fragments, Theses on the Philosophy of History, play a determining role in how Benjamin's thought is understood, as well as in the debate about the interplay between politics, history and time. Walter Benjamin and History is the first volume to give access to the themes and problems raised by the



Theses, providing valuable exegetical and historical work on the text. The essays collected here are all the work of noted Benjamin scholars, and pursue the themes central to the Theses.