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Benjamin's passages : dreaming, awakening / / Alexander Gelley



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Autore: Gelley Alexander Visualizza persona
Titolo: Benjamin's passages : dreaming, awakening / / Alexander Gelley Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2015
Edizione: First edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (226 p.)
Disciplina: 838/.91209
Soggetto topico: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German
Soggetto non controllato: Frankfurt School
Marxism
Neo-Marxism
Paris
Weimar culture
cultural memory
historicism
literary theory
messianism
urban theory
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Contexts of the aesthetic -- Epigones in the house of language: Benjamin and Kraus -- Benjamin on atget: empty streets and the fading of aura -- Entering the passagen -- Citation as incitation: the political agenda of the passagenarbeit -- Messianism, "weak" and otherwise -- Forgetting, dreaming, awakening.
Sommario/riassunto: In transposing the Freudian dream work from the individual subject to the collective, Walter Benjamin projected a “macroscosmic journey” of the individual sleeper to “the dreaming collective, which, through the arcades, communes with its own insides.” Benjamin’s effort to transpose the dream phenomenon to the history of a collective remained fragmentary, though it underlies the principle of retrograde temporality, which, it is argued, is central to his idea of history.The “passages” are not just the Paris arcades: They refer also to Benjamin’s effort to negotiate the labyrinth of his work and thought. Gelley works through many of Benjamin’s later works and examines important critical questions: the interplay of aesthetics and politics, the genre of The Arcades Project, citation, language, messianism, aura, and the motifs of memory, the crowd, and awakening.For Benjamin, memory is not only antiquarian; it functions as a solicitation, a call to a collectivity to come. Gelley reads this call in the motif of awakening, which conveys a qualified but crucial performative intention of Benjamin’s undertaking.
Titolo autorizzato: Benjamin's passages  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8232-6257-X
0-8232-6656-7
0-8232-6259-6
0-8232-6416-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910825262403321
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