Reading Walter Benjamin: Writing Through the Catastrophe

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Manchester University Press, 22.07.2005 - 211 Seiten
This book explores the persistence of absolute in Benjamin's work by sketching out the relationship between philosphy and theology apparent in his diverse writings, from the early youth movement essays to the later books, essays and fragments. Lane examines Benjamin from two main perspectives: a history-of-ideas approach situating Benjamin in relation to the new German-Jewish thinking at the turn of the twentieth-century, as well as the German youth movements, Surrealism and the "Georgekreis"; and a conceptual approach examining more critical issues in relation to Benjamin and Kant, modern aesthetics and narrative order.

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Wyneken and Rausch
25
surreal Messianism
51
Goethe and the Georgekreis
75
Kants experience
101
Casting the work of art
124
Disrupting textual order
152
exile and the time of crisis
179
Bibliography
196
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Autoren-Profil (2005)

Richard J. Lane is Professor of English at Malaspina University-College, Canada.

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