The late Walter Benjamin

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The late Walter Benjamin

John Schad

（New directions in religion and literature）

Continuum, c2012

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-238) and index

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内容説明

This fully-annotated documentary novel explores the life and thought of Walter Benjamin, imaginatively examining its implications in the political context of a post-War London estate. A startling critical-creative examination of one of the 20th Century's leading thinkers, "The Late Walter Benjamin" is a documentary novel that juxtaposes the life and death of Walter Benjamin with the days, hours and minutes of a working-class council estate on the edge of London in post-war Austerity England. The novel centres on one particular tenant who claims to be Walter Benjamin, and only ever uses words written by Benjamin, apparently oblivious that the real Benjamin committed suicide 20 years earlier whilst fleeing the Nazis. Initially set in the sixties, the text slips back to the early years of the estate and to Benjamin's last days, as he moves across Europe seeking ever-more desperately to escape the Third Reich. Through this fictional narrative, John Schad explores not only the emergence of Benjamin's thinking from a politicised Jewish theology forced to confront the rise of Nazism but also the implications of his utopian Marxism, forged in exile, for the very different context of a displaced working class community in post-war Britain. This series aims to showcase new work at the forefront of religion and literature through short studies written by leading and rising scholars in the field. Books will pursue a variety of theoretical approaches as they engage with writing from different religious and literary traditions. Collectively, the series will offer a timely critical intervention to the interdisciplinary crossover between religion and literature, speaking to wider contemporary interests and mapping out new directions for the field in the early twenty-first century.

目次

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Illustrations
  • A Note Left Behind
  • 1. The Gate
  • 2. The House
  • 3. Two Films Are Briefly Projected
  • 4. The Front Room
  • 5. Still the Front Room
  • 6. The Garden in the Evening
  • 7. Still the Garden in the Evening
  • 8. The Garden, Now Frozen, At Night
  • 9. Still the Frosted Garden At Night
  • 10. The Coronation and the Beautiful Pouring Rain
  • 11. Still the Coronation and the Beautiful Pouring Rain
  • 12. Removal
  • 13. The Threshold of the Hotel
  • Post-face
  • Notes
  • Index.

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