Walter Benjamin : an aesthetic of redemption

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Walter Benjamin : an aesthetic of redemption

Richard Wolin ; with a new introduction by the author

(Weimar and now : German cultural criticism / Martin Jay and Anton Kaes, general editors, 7)

University of California Press, c1994

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Originally published: New York : Columbia University Press, 1982

Bibliography: p. 305-312

Includes index

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Description

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.

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 Chapter Eight "A L'ECART DE TOUS LES COURANTS" NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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