LEADER 03548nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910787312803321 005 20230803030721.0 010 $a0-8047-8664-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804786645 035 $a(CKB)2670000000397120 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000954727 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11484821 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000954727 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10942323 035 $a(PQKB)10369591 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1273588 035 $a(DE-B1597)563738 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804786645 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1273588 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10747506 035 $a(OCoLC)854520518 035 $a(OCoLC)1198930192 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000397120 100 $a20121011d2013 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPhilosophy and melancholy$b[electronic resource] $eBenjamin's early reflections on theater and language /$fIlit Ferber 210 $aStanford, California $cStanford University Press$d2013 215 $ax, 241 p 225 0 $aCultural Memory in the Present 225 0$aCultural memory in the present 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8047-8519-8 311 $a0-8047-8520-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 215-231) and index. 327 $aBenjamin and Freud : at the juncture of melancholy loss -- Commitment and loyalty to the lost object -- The intentionless nature of truth -- Work and play : a view of melancholic productivity -- The Trauerspiel : reflections on the baroque -- Expressions of pain in the Trauerspiel -- The bombastic nature of expression in the Trauerspiel -- Pain and spectacle : the figure of the martyr -- Death and meaning : the figure of the ghost -- Language and loss : Benjamin's concept of expression -- Creation and loss : "on language as such" -- Lament : language and sadness -- The ghosts of language : "the task of the translator" -- The "epistemo-critical prologue" -- The "monad" : Leibniz and Benjamin -- The monads' configuration as a hierarchy -- A pre-established harmony : Benjamin's conception of truth as harmony -- Stimmung : philosophy and mood. 330 $aThis book traces the concept of melancholy in Walter Benjamin's early writings. Rather than focusing on the overtly melancholic subject matter of Benjamin's work or the unhappy circumstances of his own fate, Ferber considers the concept's implications for his philosophy. Informed by Heidegger's discussion of moods and their importance for philosophical thought, she contends that a melancholic mood is the organizing principle or structure of Benjamin's early metaphysics and ontology. Her novel analysis of Benjamin's arguments about theater and language features a discussion of the Trauerspiel book that is amongst the first in English to scrutinize the baroque plays themselves. Philosophy and Melancholy also contributes to the history of philosophy by establishing a strong relationship between Benjamin and other philosophers, including Leibniz, Kant, Husserl, and Heidegger. 606 $aMelancholy (Philosophy) 606 $aPhilosophy, German$y20th century 615 0$aMelancholy (Philosophy) 615 0$aPhilosophy, German 676 $a193 700 $aFerber$b Ilit$01508316 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787312803321 996 $aPhilosophy and melancholy$93739661 997 $aUNINA