Walter Benjamin and History

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A&C Black, 1. pro 2005. - Broj stranica: 268
The first book to examine in detail Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History Benjamin's collection of fragments, Theses on the Philosophy of History, play a determining role in how Benjamin's thought is understood, as well as in the debate about the interplay between politics, history and time. Walter Benjamin and History is the first volume to give access to the themes and problems raised by the Theses, providing valuable exegetical and historical work on the text. The essays collected here are all the work of noted Benjamin scholars, and pursue the themes central to the Theses.
 

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Introduction
1
The Now the Then and Modernity
3
Benjamins Attenuation of the Negative
19
Walter Benjamin on Historical Time
38
Walter Benjamins Destructive Landsurveying of History
69
Between Melancholia and Fetishism
88
KierkegaardBenjaminBrecht
102
The Temporality of Parataxis in Benjamins Historiography
118
The Moods of Modernity
156
10 Walter Benjamins Interior History
171
11 What is the Matter with Architectural History?
182
Thesis XV
197
13 Nonmessianic Political Theology in Benjamins On the Concept of History
215
Notes
227
Contributors
253
Index
256

Benjamin and the Critique of Historicisms
137

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O autoru (2005)

Andrew Benjamin is Distinguished Professor of Architectural Theory at the University of Technology, Sydney and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Monash University Melbourne.

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