Walter Benjamin and romanticism
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Walter Benjamin and romanticism
(Walter Benjamin studies series)
Continuum, 2002
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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ISBN 9780826460202
Description
This text explores the relationship between Walter Benjamin's literary and philosophical work and the tradition of German Romanticism, as well as Holderlin and Goethe. Through a detailed and scholarly analysis of the major texts, the book explores the endurance of Benjamin's relationship to Romanticism, the residual presence of Romantic Goethean and Holderlinian motifs in Benjamin's subsequent writings and how Benjamin's understanding of the relationship between criticism and Romanticism can still play a vital role in contemporary philosophical and literary practice.
Table of Contents
- Part I Walter Benjamin and the Early Romantics: Introduction to Walter Benjamin's "The Concept of Art Criticism in German Romanticism"
- Walter Benjamin's Exposition of the Romantic Theory of Reflection. Part II Beyond Early Romanticism: Holderlin, Goethe
- "Dichtermut" and "Bludigkeit" - Two Poems by Friedrich Holderlin, Interpreted by Walter Benjamin Poetry's Courage
- The Artwork as Breach of a Beyond - On the Dialectic of Divine and Human Order in Walter Benjamin's "Goethe's Elective Affinities". (Part contents).
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: pbk ISBN 9780826460219
Description
This text explores the relationship between Walter Benjamin's literary and philosophical work and the tradition of German Romanticism, as well as Holderlin and Goethe. Through a detailed and scholarly analysis of the major texts, the book explores the endurance of Benjamin's relationship to Romanticism, the residual presence of Romantic Goethean and Holderlinian motifs in Benjamin's subsequent writings and how Benjamin's understanding of the relationship between criticism and Romanticism can still play a vital role in contemporary philosophical and literary practice. Contributors include Andrew Benjamin, Josh Cohen, David Ferris, Beatrice Hanssen, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Charlie Louth, Bettine Menke, Winfried Menninghaus, Anthony Phelan and Sigrid Weigel.
Table of Contents
- Walter Benjamin and the Early Romantics: introduction to Walter Benjamin's "The Concept of Art Criticism in German Romanticism"
- Walter Benjamin's Exposition of the Romantic Theory of Reflection
- the Sober Absolute - On Benjamin and the Early Romantics
- Fortgang and Zusammenhang - Walter Benjamin and the Romantic Novel
- However One Calls Into the Forest - Echoes of Translation
- Unfolding - Reading After Romanticism
- The Absolute as Translatability - Working Through Walter Benjamin on Language
- Benjamin, Romanticism, and the Foundations of Critical Theory. Beyond Early Romanticism - Benjamin, H lderlin, Goethe: "Dichtermut" and "Bl digkeit" - Two Poems by Friedrich H lderlin, interpreted by Walter Benjamin and Beatrice Hanssen
- Poetry's Courage
- Benjamin's Affinity - Goethe, the Romantics, and the Pure Problem of Criticism
- The Artwork as Breach of a Beyond - On the Dialectic of Divine and Human Order in Walter Benjamin's "Goethe's Elective Affinities".
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