02737nam 22004693u 450 991077700990332120230617040139.01-281-29887-597866112988761-84714-330-X(CKB)1000000000415560(EBL)436233(OCoLC)290572060(MiAaPQ)EBC436233(EXLCZ)99100000000041556020130418d2005|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||Walter Benjamin and History[electronic resource]London Continuum International Publishing20051 online resource (269 p.)Walter Benjamin StudiesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8264-6746-6 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 Historiography8 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; IndexThe 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.Walter Benjamin StudiesBenjamin, WalterHistoryBenjamin, Walter.History.838/.91209901Benjamin Andrew162099AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910777009903321Walter Benjamin and History3696510UNINA