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A Companion to the Works of Walter Benjamin

Author : Rolf J. Goebel
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 1571133674
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Works of Walter Benjamin written by Rolf J. Goebel and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2009 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) has emerged as one of the leading cultural critics of the twentieth century. His work encompasses aesthetics, metaphysical language and narrative theories, German literary history, philosophies of history, the intersection of Marxism and Messianic thought, urban topography, and the development of photography and film. Benjamin defined the task of the critic as one that blasts endangered moments of the past out of the continuum of history so that they attain new significance. This volume of new essays employs this principle of actualization as its methodological program in offering a new advanced introduction to Benjamin's own work. The essays analyze Benjamin's central texts, themes, terminologies, and genres in their original contexts while simultaneously situating them in new parameters, such as contemporary media, memory culture, constructions of gender, postcoloniality, and theories of urban topographies. The Companion brings together an international group of established and emerging scholars to explicate Benjamin's actuality from a multidisciplinary perspective. Designed for audiences interested in literary criticism, cultural studies, and neighboring disciplines, the volume serves as a stimulus for new debates about Benjamin's intellectual legacy today. Contributors: Wolfgang Bock, Willi Bolle, Dianne Chisholm, Adrian Daub, Dominik Finkelde, Eric Jarosinski, Lutz Koepnick, Vivian Liska, Karl Ivan Solibakke, Marc de Wilde, Bernd Witte Rolf J. Goebel is Distinguished Professor of German and Chair of the Department of World Languages and Cultures at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

The Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin

Author : David S. Ferris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521797245
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (972 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin written by David S. Ferris and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-25 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the thought of the highly influential twentieth-century critic and theorist Walter Benjamin. The volume provides examinations of the different aspects of Benjamin's work that have had a significant effect on contemporary critical and historical thought. Topics discussed by experts in the field include Benjamin's relation to the avant-garde movements of his time, his theories on language and mimesis, modernity, his significance and relevance to modern cultural studies, and his autobiographical writings. Additional material includes a guide to further reading and a chronology.

Für Walter Benjamin

Author : Siegfried Unseld
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Für Walter Benjamin written by Siegfried Unseld and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Analysis of Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Author : Rachele Dini
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429939957
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book An Analysis of Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction written by Rachele Dini and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction combats traditional art criticism’s treatment of artworks as fixed, unchanging mystical objects. For Walter Benjamin, the consequences of addressing a work of art in this manner have a wider resonance: closed off from any active visual or tactile engagement, the work of art becomes an object of passive contemplation and a potential tool of oppression. Benjamin argues that technology has fundamentally altered the way art is experienced. Potentially open to interpretation and accessible to many, art in the age of mechanical reproduction has the potential to be mobilized for radical purposes. While ostensibly addressing the artistic consequences of technical reproducibility on art, Benjamin also addresses the wider political consequences of this shift.

Walter Benjamin

Author : Lorenz Jäger
Publisher : Rowohlt Verlag GmbH
ISBN 13 : 3644121311
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book Walter Benjamin written by Lorenz Jäger and published by Rowohlt Verlag GmbH. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genie und Grenzgänger – Lorenz Jägers große Biographie Walter Benjamins Walter Benjamin wollte in keine Schublade oder philosophische Schule passen, sein Werk blieb unvollendet – und doch zählt er zu den einflussreichsten Denkern des 20. Jahrhunderts, Intellektuelle wie Adorno und Kracauer bewunderten ihn als Genie. Lorenz Jäger erzählt das Leben des außergewöhnlichen Literaten: Er schildert Benjamins Kindheit in der Familie eines jüdischen Kunsthändlers, die Studienjahre in Freiburg und Berlin, wo die so anregende Freundschaft mit Gershom Scholem begann, die wechselhafte Beziehung zur Frankfurter Schule. Benjamin reiste nach Moskau, wo er sich vorsichtig der kommunistischen Bewegung näherte; im Pariser Exil diskutierte er mit Hannah Arendt und arbeitete am großen «Passagen-Werk», das Fragment blieb. 1940 floh er vor der Gefahr, nach Deutschland ausgeliefert zu werden, in das spanische Portbou, wo er sich das Leben nahm – ein Ende, rätselhaft wie vieles in Benjamins Leben und Schreiben. Jäger vergegenwärtigt eindrucksvoll den Lebensweg Walter Benjamins – und zeichnet zugleich ein faszinierendes Zeitbild der ersten Jahrhunderthälfte, vom arrivierten Berliner Judentum über die Intellektuellenkreise der Weimarer Republik bis zu den Schrecken des Exils und der Verfolgung. Eine hochspannende Biographie, die Leben und Werk dieses großen Denkers neu erschließt.

A Companion to Art Theory

Author : Paul Smith
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470998423
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Art Theory written by Paul Smith and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Companion provides an accessible critical survey of Western visual art theory from sources in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance thought through to contemporary writings.

Nietzsche’s Nihilism in Walter Benjamin

Author : Mauro Ponzi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319392670
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Nietzsche’s Nihilism in Walter Benjamin written by Mauro Ponzi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconstructs the lines of nihilism that Walter Benjamin took from Friedrich Nietzsche that define both his theory of art and the avant-garde, and his approach to political action. It retraces the eccentric route of Benjamin's philosophical discourse in the representation of the modern as a place of “permanent catastrophe”, where he attempts to overcome the Nietzschean nihilism through messianic hope. Using conventions from literary criticism this book explores the many sources of Benjamin's thought, demonstrating that behind the materialism which Benjamin incorporates into his Theses on the Concept of History is hidden Nietzsche's nihilism. Mauro Ponzi analyses how Benjamin’s Arcades Project uses figures such as Baudelaire, Marx, Aragon, Proust and Blanqui as allegories to explain many aspects of modernity. The author argues that Benjamin uses Baudelaire as a paradigm to emphasize the dark side of the modern era, offering us a key to the interpretation of communicative and cultural trends of today.

Über Walter Benjamin

Author : Theodor W. Adorno
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Über Walter Benjamin written by Theodor W. Adorno and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Walter Benjamin and Art

Author : Andrew Benjamin
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847144543
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Walter Benjamin and Art written by Andrew Benjamin and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-02-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Benjamin's most famous and influential essay remains The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Walter Benjamin and the Work of Art is the first book to provide a broad and dedicated analysis of this canonical work and its effect upon core contemporary concerns in the visual arts, aesthetics and the history of philosophy. The book is structured around three distinct areas: the extension of Benjamin's work; the question of historical connection; the importance of the essay in the development of criticism of both the visual arts and literature. Contributors to the volume include major Benjamin commentators, whose work has very much defined the reception of the essay, and leading philosophers, historians and aesthetician, whose approaches open up new areas of interest and relevance.

One-Way Street

Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674545923
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book One-Way Street written by Walter Benjamin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented in a new edition with expanded notes, this genre-defying meditation on the semiotics of late-1920s Weimar culture, composed of 60 short prose pieces that vary wildly in style and theme, offers a fresh opportunity to encounter Walter Benjamin at his most virtuosic and experimental, writing in a vein that anticipates later masterpieces.

Walter Benjamin

Author : Joan Nordquist
Publisher : Reference & Research Services
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Walter Benjamin written by Joan Nordquist and published by Reference & Research Services. This book was released on 1989 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bibliography of books and articles by and about Walter Benjamin.

Walter Benjamin

Author : Bernd Witte
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814320181
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Walter Benjamin written by Bernd Witte and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanded and revised, as well as translated, from the 1985 German edition, details the thought of Benjamin (1892-1940), an all-around European intellectual most active between the wars. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Walter Benjamin and History

Author : Andrew Benjamin
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 184714330X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Walter Benjamin and History written by Andrew Benjamin and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to examine in detail Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History Benjamin's collection of fragments, Theses on the Philosophy of History, play a determining role in how Benjamin's thought is understood, as well as in the debate about the interplay between politics, history and time. Walter Benjamin and History is the first volume to give access to the themes and problems raised by the Theses, providing valuable exegetical and historical work on the text. The essays collected here are all the work of noted Benjamin scholars, and pursue the themes central to the Theses.

Art and Gentrification in the Changing Neoliberal Landscape

Author : Tijen Tunalı
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000391345
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Art and Gentrification in the Changing Neoliberal Landscape written by Tijen Tunalı and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art and Gentrification in the Changing Neoliberal Landscape brings together various disciplinary perspectives and diverse theories on art’s dialectical and evolving relationship with urban regeneration processes. It engages in the accumulated discussions on art’s role in gentrification, yet changes the focus to the growing phenomenon of artistic protests and resistance in the gentrified neighborhoods. Since the 1980s, art and artists’ roles in gentrification have been at the forefront of urban geography research in the subjects of housing, regeneration, displacement and new urban planning. In these accounts the artists have been noted to contribute at all stages of gentrification, from triggering it to eventually being displaced by it themselves. The current presence of art in our neoliberal urban spaces illustrates the constant negotiation between power and resistance. And there is a growing need to recognize art’s shifting and conflicting relationship with gentrification. The chapters presented here share a common thesis that the aesthetic reconfiguration of the neoliberal city does not only allow uneven and exclusionary urban redevelopment strategies but also facilitates the growth of anti-gentrification resistance. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, urban cultures, cultural geography and urban studies as well as contemporary art practitioners and policymakers.

Selected Writings: 1913-1926

Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674945852
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book Selected Writings: 1913-1926 written by Walter Benjamin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even as a young man Benjamin possessed astonishing intellectual range and depth. His topics here include poetry and fiction, drama, philosophy, history, religion, love, violence, morality, mythology, painting and much more.

Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht

Author : Erdmut Wizisla
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300156448
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht written by Erdmut Wizisla and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erdmut Wizisla's groundbreaking work explores for the first time the important friendship between Walter Benjamin, the acclaimed critic and literary theorist, and Bertolt Brecht, one of the twentieth century's most influential theater artists and poets, during the crucial interwar years in Berlin. From the first meeting between Benjamin and Brecht to their experiences in exile, the events in this friendship are illuminated by personal correspondence, journal entries, and notes--including previously unpublished materials--from the friends' electric discussions of shared projects. In addition to exploring correspondence between the two, Wizisla presents documents by colleagues who shaped and shaded their relationship, including Margarete Steffin, Theodor Adorno, and Hannah Arendt. Wizisla shows us the fascinating ideological exchanges between Benjamin and Brecht, including the first account of Berlin Marxist journal planned for 1931. The Minutes of its meetings record the involvement of Benjamin and Brecht, and offer a window onto the discussions on literature and politics that took place under the increasing threat of the German left's political defeat. Wizisla's examination of the friendship between Benjamin and Brecht, two artists at the height of their creative powers during a time of great political crisis, throws light on nearly two decades of European intellectual life.

Walter Benjamin

Author : Esther Leslie
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861896034
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Walter Benjamin written by Esther Leslie and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2008-01-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon a wealth of journal writings and personal correspondence, Esther Leslie presents a uniquely intimate portrait of one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century, Walter Benjamin. She sets his life in the context of his middle-class upbringing; explores the social, political, and economic upheaval in Germany during and after World War I; and recounts Benjamin’s eccentric love of toys, trick-books, travel, and ships. From the Frankfurt School and his influential friendships with Theodore Adorno, Gershom Scholem, and Bertolt Brecht, to his travels across Europe, Walter Benjamin traces out the roots of Benjamin’s groundbreaking writings and their far-reaching impact in his own time. Leslie argues that Benjamin’s life challenges the stereotypical narrative of the tragic and lonely intellectual figure—instead positioning him as a man who relished the fierce combat of competing theories and ideas. Closing with his death at the Spanish-French border in a desperate flight from the Nazis and Stalin, Walter Benjamin is a concise and concentrated account of a capacious intellect trapped by hostile circumstances.