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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783942803321

Autore

Caygill Howard

Titolo

Walter Benjamin : the colour of experience / / Howard Caygill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998

ISBN

0-415-75614-6

0-415-08959-X

1-134-87819-2

1-280-11432-0

0-203-99285-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (182 p.)

Disciplina

193

Soggetti

Experience - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Preface and acknowledgements; References and abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The programme of the coming philosophy; 2 Speculative critique; 3 The work of art; 4 The experience of the city; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book analyses the development of Benjamin's concept of experience in his early writings showing that it emerges from an engagement with visual experience, and in particular the experience of colour.