UID:
edocfu_9959239071702883
Format:
1 online resource (lviii, 316 pages)
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illustrations.
Edition:
Reprint 2019
ISBN:
0-520-91430-9
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0-585-18134-9
Series Statement:
Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism ; 7.
Content:
Few twentieth-century thinkers have proven as influential as Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish philosopher and cultural and literary critic. Richard Wolin's book remains among the clearest and most insightful introductions to Benjamin's writings, offering a philosophically rich exposition of his complex relationship to Adorno, Brecht, Jewish Messianism, and Western Marxism. Wolin provides nuanced interpretations of Benjamin's widely studied writings on Baudelaire, historiography, and art in the age of mechanical reproduction. In a new Introduction written especially for this edition, Wolin discusses the unfinished Arcades Project, as well as recent tendencies in the reception of Benjamin's work and the relevance of his ideas to contemporary debates about modernity and postmodernity.
Note:
Originally published: New York : Columbia University Press, 1982.
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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PREFACE --
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --
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A Note on the Translations. A Note on Terminology --
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INTRODUCTION to the Revised Edition --
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Chapter One. ORIGINS --
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Chapter Two. THE PATH TO TRAUERSPIEL --
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Chapter Three. IDEAS AND THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE --
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Chapter Four. FROM MESSIANISM TO MATERIALISM --
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Chapter Five. BENJAMIN AND BRECHT --
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Chapter Six. THE ADORNO-BENJAMIN DISPUTE --
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Chapter Seven. BENJAMIN’S MATERIALIST THEORY OF EXPERIENCE --
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Chapter Eight. “A L'ÉCART DE TOUS LES COURANTS” --
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NOTES --
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BIBLIOGRAPHY --
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INDEX
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-08400-4
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520914308
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