Walter Benjamin

Theoretical Questions

By: David S. Ferris (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 July 1996

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This collection of nine essays focuses on those writings of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) on literature and language that have a direct relevance to contemporary literary theory, notably his analyses of myth, violence, history, criticism, literature, and mass media.

In an introductory essay, David S. Ferris discusses the problem of history, aura, and resistance in Benjamin’s later work and in its reception. Samuel Weber, in a reading of Benjamin’s most influential essay, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” analyzes the status of the image and technology in Benjamin’s own terms and in the shadow of Heidegger. Rodolphe Gasché devotes himself to an analysis of Benjamin’s dissertation on the German Romantics, providing a valuable guide to a major text that has yet to appear in English translation.

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"An excellent collection of essays on a thinker who continues to be a provocation and source of insight for a wide variety of intellectuals, teachers, and students interested in literature, philosophy, sociology, history, the visual arts, and the media." - Ian Balfour, York University

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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Literary Theory General Literary Studies Non-Fiction Prose

Contributors
Introduction: Aura, Resistance, and the Event of History	p. 1
Mass Mediauras; or, Art, Aura, and Media in the Work of Walter Benjamin	p. 27
The Sober Absolute: On Benjamin and the Early Romantics	p. 50
The Genesis of Judgment: Spatiality, Analogy, and Metaphor in Benjamin's "On Language as Such and on Human Language"	p. 75
Walter Benjamin: Topographically Speaking	p. 94
The Poetic Ground Laid Bare (Benjamin Reading Baudelaire)	p. 118
On Presentation in Benjamin	p. 139
The Violence of Destruction	p. 165
Momentary Violence	p. 185
Notes	p. 209
Index of Names	p. 245
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