Reading Walter Benjamin : writing through the catastrophe
This book explores the persistence of absolute in Benjamin's work by sketching out the relationship between philosophy 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
Print Book, English, 2005
Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, Manchester, New York, 2005
collective biographies
211 pages ; 23 cm
9780719064364, 9780719064371, 0719064368, 0719064376
60561057
Kulturpessimismus and the new thinking
Metaphysics of youth: Wyneken and 'Rausch'
History: surreal Messianism
Goethe and the Georgekreis
Kant's experience
Casting the work of art
Disrupting textual order
Exile and the time of crisis