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 di... Read More
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 di... Read More
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.
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, offerin
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Price: $24.95
Pages: 316
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism
Publication Date: 1st September 2023
ISBN: 9780520914308
Format: eBook
BISACs: LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory PHILOSOPHY / Political
Author Bio
Richard Wolin is Distinguished Professor of History and Political Science at the CUNY Graduate Center. His books include The Politics of Being: The Political Thought of Martin Heidegger (1990) and The Terms of Cultural Criticism: The Frankfurt School, Existentialism, Poststructuralism (1992).
Table of Contents
PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A NOTE ON THE TRANSLATIONS A NOTE ON TERMINOLOGY INTRODUCTION TO THE REVISED EDITION
Chapter One ORIGINS Childhood and Autobiography Youth Movement Romantic Anticapitalism
Chapter Two THE PATH TO TRAUERSPIEL Experience, Kabbalah, and Language Messianic Time Versus Historical Time Allegory
Chapter Three IDEAS AND THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE Anti-Historicism The Essay as Mediation Between Art and Philosophical Truth Constellation, Origin, Monad
Chapter Four FROM MESSIANISM TO MATERIALISM Radical Communism One-Way Street and Dialectical Images Surrealism
Chapter Five BENJAMIN AND BRECHT "Crude Thinking" Epic Theater The Author as Producer
Chapter Six THE ADORNO-BENJAMIN DISPUTE The Philosophical Rapprochement Between Benjamin and Adorno in the Early 1930s The Arcades Expose Art and Mechanical Reproduction Methodological Asceticism, Magic and Positivism Beyond the Dispute
Chapter Seven BENJAMIN'S MATERIALIST THEORY OF EXPERIENCE The Disintegration of Community: Novel versus Story Baudelaire, Modernity, and Shock Experience Nonsensuous Correspondences
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.
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, offerin
Price: $24.95
Pages: 316
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism
Publication Date: 1st September 2023
ISBN: 9780520914308
Format: eBook
BISACs: LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory PHILOSOPHY / Political
Richard Wolin is Distinguished Professor of History and Political Science at the CUNY Graduate Center. His books include The Politics of Being: The Political Thought of Martin Heidegger (1990) and The Terms of Cultural Criticism: The Frankfurt School, Existentialism, Poststructuralism (1992).
PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A NOTE ON THE TRANSLATIONS A NOTE ON TERMINOLOGY INTRODUCTION TO THE REVISED EDITION
Chapter One ORIGINS Childhood and Autobiography Youth Movement Romantic Anticapitalism
Chapter Two THE PATH TO TRAUERSPIEL Experience, Kabbalah, and Language Messianic Time Versus Historical Time Allegory
Chapter Three IDEAS AND THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE Anti-Historicism The Essay as Mediation Between Art and Philosophical Truth Constellation, Origin, Monad
Chapter Four FROM MESSIANISM TO MATERIALISM Radical Communism One-Way Street and Dialectical Images Surrealism
Chapter Five BENJAMIN AND BRECHT "Crude Thinking" Epic Theater The Author as Producer
Chapter Six THE ADORNO-BENJAMIN DISPUTE The Philosophical Rapprochement Between Benjamin and Adorno in the Early 1930s The Arcades Expose Art and Mechanical Reproduction Methodological Asceticism, Magic and Positivism Beyond the Dispute
Chapter Seven BENJAMIN'S MATERIALIST THEORY OF EXPERIENCE The Disintegration of Community: Novel versus Story Baudelaire, Modernity, and Shock Experience Nonsensuous Correspondences
