LEADER 02737nam 22004693u 450 001 9910777009903321 005 20230617040139.0 010 $a1-281-29887-5 010 $a9786611298876 010 $a1-84714-330-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000415560 035 $a(EBL)436233 035 $a(OCoLC)290572060 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC436233 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000415560 100 $a20130418d2005|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 200 10$aWalter Benjamin and History$b[electronic resource] 210 $aLondon $cContinuum International Publishing$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (269 p.) 225 1 $aWalter Benjamin Studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8264-6746-6 327 $aContents; 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 327 $a8 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 330 $aThe first book to examine in detail Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History Benjamin's collection of fragments, Theses on the Philosophy of History, play a determining role in how Benjamin's thought is understood, as well as in the debate about the interplay between politics, history and time. Walter Benjamin and History is the first volume to give access to the themes and problems raised by the Theses, providing valuable exegetical and historical work on the text. The essays collected here are all the work of noted Benjamin scholars, and pursue the themes central to the Theses. 410 0$aWalter Benjamin Studies 606 $aBenjamin, Walter 606 $aHistory 615 4$aBenjamin, Walter. 615 4$aHistory. 676 $a838/.91209 676 $a901 700 $aBenjamin$b Andrew$0162099 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777009903321 996 $aWalter Benjamin and History$93696510 997 $aUNINA