Walter Benjamin and the demands of history

Walter Benjamin and the demands of history /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Steinberg, Michael P.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1996.
Subjects:
Benjamin, Walter, > 1892-1940 > Knowledge and learning.
Benjamin, Walter, > 1892-1940 > Philosophy.
Bejamin, Walter, > 1892-1940.
Benjamin, Walter, > 1892-1940.
Benjamin, Walter > 1892-1940
Benjamin, Walter.
History in literature.
History > Philosophy.
Histoire dans la littérature.
Learning and scholarship.
History.
Philosophy.
Geschichtsphilosophie
Geschichtstheorie
Literatuurgeschiedenis (wetenschap)
Dialectiek.
Geschiedfilosofie.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Benjamin and the Critique of Allegorical Reason / Michael P. Steinberg
  • 2. The Archaeomodern Turn / Jacques Ranciere
  • 3. The Allegory of the Philosophy of History in the Nineteenth Century / Heinz-Dieter Kittsteiner
  • 4. The Benjamin Effect: Modernism, Repetition, and the Path to Different Cultural Imaginaries / Harry D. Harootunian
  • 5. The Collector as Allegorist: Goods, Gods, and the Objects of History / Michael P. Steinberg
  • 6. Strolling through the Colonies / Curtis M. Hinsley
  • 7. Acedia and Melancholia / Francoise Meltzer
  • 8. Tactics of Remembrance: Proust, Surrealism, and the Origin of the Passagenwerk / Max Pensky
  • 9. Smashing the Kaleidoscope: Walter Benjamin's Critique of Cultural History / Irving Wohlfarth
  • 10. "Against the Grain": The Dialectical Conception of Culture in Walter Benjamins's Theses of 1940 / Michael Lowy
  • 11. Hyphenation: The Spatial Dimensions of Hong Kong Culture / Ackbar Abbas.

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