Walter Benjamin and history / edited by Andrew Benjamin.
2005
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Title
Walter Benjamin and history / edited by Andrew Benjamin.
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London ; New York : Continuum, [2005]
Copyright
©2005
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260 pages ; 24 cm.
Series
Walter Benjamin studies series.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction / Andrew Benjamin
The supposition of the aura: the now, the then, and modernity / Georges Didi-Huberman
The shortness of history, or photography In Nuce: Benjamin's attenuation of the negative / David Ferris
'Now': Walter Benjamin on historical time / Werner Hamacher
Down the K. hole: Walter Benjamin's destructive land-surveying of history / Stephanie Polsky
The sickness of tradition: between melancholia and fetishism / Rebecca Comay
Trembling contours: Kierkegaard-Benjamin-Brecht / Rainer Nägele
The subject of history: the temporality of parataxis in Benjamin's historiography / Dimitris Vardoulakis
Tradition as injunction: Benjamin and the critique of historicisms / Philippe Simay
Boredom and distraction: the moods of modernity / Andrew Benjamin
Walter Benjamin's interior history / Charles Rice
What is the matter with architectural history? / Gevork Hartoonian
Messianic epistemology: Thesis XV / Robert Gibbs
Non-messianic political theology in Benjamin's 'On the concept of history' / Howard Caygill.
The supposition of the aura: the now, the then, and modernity / Georges Didi-Huberman
The shortness of history, or photography In Nuce: Benjamin's attenuation of the negative / David Ferris
'Now': Walter Benjamin on historical time / Werner Hamacher
Down the K. hole: Walter Benjamin's destructive land-surveying of history / Stephanie Polsky
The sickness of tradition: between melancholia and fetishism / Rebecca Comay
Trembling contours: Kierkegaard-Benjamin-Brecht / Rainer Nägele
The subject of history: the temporality of parataxis in Benjamin's historiography / Dimitris Vardoulakis
Tradition as injunction: Benjamin and the critique of historicisms / Philippe Simay
Boredom and distraction: the moods of modernity / Andrew Benjamin
Walter Benjamin's interior history / Charles Rice
What is the matter with architectural history? / Gevork Hartoonian
Messianic epistemology: Thesis XV / Robert Gibbs
Non-messianic political theology in Benjamin's 'On the concept of history' / Howard Caygill.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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English
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2008. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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0826467458 hardback
0826467466 paperback
0826467466 paperback
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