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Walter Benjamin: Modernity

Author : Peter Osborne
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415325356
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book Walter Benjamin: Modernity written by Peter Osborne and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No other single author has so commanding a critical presence across so many disciplines within the arts and humanities, in so many national contexts, as Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). The belated reception of his work as a literary critic (dating from the late 1950s) has been followed by a rapid series of critical receptions in different contexts: Frankfurt Critical Theory and Marxism, Judaism, Film Theory, Post-structuralism, Philosophical Romanticism, and Cultural Studies.This collection brings together a selection of the most critically important items in the literature, across the full range of Benjamin's cultural-theoretical interests, from all periods of the reception of his writings, but focusing upon the most recent, to produce a comprehensive overview of the best critical literature.

Perception and Experience in Modernity

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004334165
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Perception and Experience in Modernity written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of Benjamin Studies publishes the keynote lectures of the first Congress of the International Walter Benjamin Association, which took place in Amsterdam, July 1997. Its title bears witness to the most central concepts of Benjamin’s philosophy of culture. Strongly influenced as he was by Kant, Benjamin never lost his inclination to analyse the components of reality as fashioned by ourselves. Because he was also a materialist, for him the modes of fashioning were shaped in turn by the times and places we occupy in history. As a consequence, Benjamin’s theory assigns a pivotal role in the interaction between the world and its inhabitants to the media: language with its plethora of discourses, the arts, and the whole technology of reproduction. The historical and social development of the media is, translated, according to him, into our instruments of perception, and this perception constructs the elements of the world, the knowledge of this construction and the knowledge of the constructor. The self-knowledge of the constructor is what we call ‘experience’. Within this broad epistemological framework, the diversity and complexity of Benjamin’s project acquires a fundamental coherence and is therefore able to accommodate the temporal volatility of the phenomena of our world. It’s not surprising, therefore, that Perception & Experience offers the most stimulating variety of topics, and that the keynote lectures reflect merely an intensification of interest in certain areas within a much larger field of investigation. The texts presented here pinpoint the central preoccupations of today’s debates amongst Benjamin scholars, preoccupations which are themselves responses to our own historical imperatives.

Walter Benjamin and the Media

Author : Jaeho Kang
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745670849
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Walter Benjamin and the Media written by Jaeho Kang and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), one of the most original and perceptive thinkers of the twentieth century, offered a unique insight into the profound impact of the media on modern society. Jaeho Kang’s book offers a lucid introduction to Benjamin’s theory of the media and its continuing relevance today. The book provides a systematic and close reading of Benjamin’s critical and provocative writings on the intersection between media - from print to electronic - and modern experience, with reference to the information industry, the urban spectacle, and the aesthetic politics. Bringing Benjamin’s thought into a critical constellation with contemporary media theorists such as Marshall McLuhan and Jean Baudrillard, the book helps students understand the implications of Benjamin’s work for media studies today and how they can apply his distinctive ideas to contemporary media culture. Kang’s book leads to a fresh appreciation of Benjamin’s work and new insight into critical theoretical approaches to media. The book will be of particular interest to students and researchers not only in media and communication studies but also in cultural studies, film studies and social theory, who are seeking a readable overview of Benjamin’s rich yet complex writings.

Walter Benjamin and the Architecture of Modernity

Author : Andrew Benjamin
Publisher : re.press
ISBN 13 : 0980544092
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Walter Benjamin and the Architecture of Modernity written by Andrew Benjamin and published by re.press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Benjamin is universally recognised as one of the key thinkers of modernity: his writings on politics, language, literature, media, theology and law have had an incalculable influence on contemporary thought. Yet the problem of architecture in and for Benjamin's work remains relatively underexamined. Does Benjamin's project have an architecture and, if so, how does this architecture affect the explicit propositions that he offers us? In what ways are Benjamin's writings centrally caught up with architectural concerns, from the redevelopment of major urban centres to the movements that individuals can make within the new spaces of modern cities? How can Benjamin's theses help us to understand the secret architectures of the present? This volume takes up the architectural challenge in a number of innovative ways, collecting essays by both well-known and emerging scholars on time in cinema, the problem of kitsch, the design of graves and tombs, the orders of road-signs, childhood experience in modern cities, and much more. Engaged, interdisciplinary, bristling with insights, the essays in this collection will constitute an indispensable supplement to the work of Walter Benjamin, as well as providing a guide to some of the obscurities of our own present.

Virginia Woolf, Modernity and History

Author : Angeliki Spiropoulou
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230250440
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Virginia Woolf, Modernity and History written by Angeliki Spiropoulou and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-03-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the representation of the past and the practice of historiography in the fiction and critical writings of Virginia Woolf, and draws parallels between Woolf's historiographical imagination and the thought of Walter Benjamin, the German philosopher of history and key theorist of modernity.

Myth and Metropolis

Author : Graeme Gilloch
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745666868
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Myth and Metropolis written by Graeme Gilloch and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a lucid study of Walter Benjamin's lifelong fascination with the city and forms of metropolitan experience, highlighting the relevance of Benjamin's work to our contemporary understanding of modernity.

Benjamin's Library

Author : Jane O. Newman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801461367
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Benjamin's Library written by Jane O. Newman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Benjamin’s Library, Jane O. Newman offers, for the first time in any language, a reading of Walter Benjamin’s notoriously opaque work, Origin of the German Tragic Drama that systematically attends to its place in discussions of the Baroque in Benjamin’s day. Taking into account the literary and cultural contexts of Benjamin’s work, Newman recovers Benjamin’s relationship to the ideologically loaded readings of the literature and political theory of the seventeenth-century Baroque that abounded in Germany during the political and economic crises of the Weimar years. To date, the significance of the Baroque for Origin of the German Tragic Drama has been glossed over by students of Benjamin, most of whom have neither read it in this context nor engaged with the often incongruous debates about the period that filled both academic and popular texts in the years leading up to and following World War I. Armed with extraordinary historical, bibliographical, philological, and orthographic research, Newman shows the extent to which Benjamin participated in these debates by reconstructing the literal and figurative history of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century books that Benjamin analyzes and the literary, art historical and art theoretical, and political theological discussions of the Baroque with which he was familiar. In so doing, she challenges the exceptionalist, even hagiographic, approaches that have become common in Benjamin studies. The result is a deeply learned book that will infuse much-needed life into the study of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century.

Theater, Theory, Speculation

Author : Rainer Nägele
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Theater, Theory, Speculation written by Rainer Nägele and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Change

Author : A. M. Pusca
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230277969
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Change by : A. M. Pusca

Download or read book Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Change written by A. M. Pusca and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-01-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the spirit of Benjamin's Arcades Project, this book acts as a kaleidoscope of change in the 21st century, tracing its different reflections in the international contemporary while seeking to understand individual/collective reactions to change through a series of creative methodologies.

Walter Benjamin and the Demands of History

Author : Michael P. Steinberg
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801482571
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (825 download)

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Download or read book Walter Benjamin and the Demands of History written by Michael P. Steinberg and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to consider the presence of history and the question of historical practice in Walter Benjamin's work. Benjamin, the critic and philosopher of history, was also the practitioner, the authors contend, and it is in the practice of historical writing that the materialist aspect of his thought is most evident. Some of the essays analyze Benjamin's writings in cultural history and the philosophy of history. Others connect his historical and theoretical practices to issues in contemporary feminism and post-colonial studies, and to cultural contexts including the United States, Japan, and Hong Kong. In different ways, the authors all find in Benjamin's specific notion of historical materialism a dialectic between textual and cultural analysis which can reinvigorate the relation between literary and historical studies.

City and Modernity in Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin

Author : Vincenzo Mele
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031181840
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book City and Modernity in Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin written by Vincenzo Mele and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-12 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconstructs and compares the social theories of modernity of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, two classic thinkers in German social thought. The author focuses on five main topics: the historical-sociological method through which they investigate modernity; how are the concepts of history and society possible; the consequences of modern metropolis on the construction of individual subjectivity; the aestheticization of everyday life caused by the expansion of commodity culture; and the female culture as a counter-power to the domination of masculine objective culture. In the decades since Simmel and Benjamin, urban reality has undergone profound changes and we may even question the very existence of the subject of analysis: what is the city, the metropolis in today’s context of globalization and capital flows? Simmel’s and Benjamin’s metropolis has thus become an “endless city," beyond the physical and geographical confines of urban reality.

‘With the Sharpened Axe of Reason'

Author : Gerhard Fischer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book ‘With the Sharpened Axe of Reason' written by Gerhard Fischer and published by . This book was released on 1996-04 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first five episodes from the seventh series of the relaunched sci-fi adventure series. This time around, the Doctor (Matt Smith), along with companions Amy (Karen Gillan) and Rory (Arthur Darvill) - making their series farewell - are kidnapped by the Daleks; transported to the American wild west; and find themselves having to save Earth from an unlikely invasion. The episodes are: 'Asylum of the Daleks', 'Dinosaurs on a Spaceship', 'A Town Called Mercy', 'The Power of Three' and 'The Angels Take Manhattan'.

City and Modernity in Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin

Author : Vincenzo Mele
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783031181832
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (818 download)

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Download or read book City and Modernity in Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin written by Vincenzo Mele and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconstructs and compares the social theories of modernity of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, two classic thinkers in German social thought. The author focuses on five main topics: the historical-sociological method through which they investigate modernity; how are the concepts of history and society possible; the consequences of modern metropolis on the construction of individual subjectivity; the aestheticization of everyday life caused by the expansion of commodity culture; and the female culture as a counter-power to the domination of masculine objective culture. In the decades since Simmel and Benjamin, urban reality has undergone profound changes and we may even question the very existence of the subject of analysis: what is the city, the metropolis in today’s context of globalization and capital flows? Simmel’s and Benjamin’s metropolis has thus become an “endless city," beyond the physical and geographical confines of urban reality.

Fragments of Modernity (Routledge Revivals)

Author : David Frisby
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134459858
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Fragments of Modernity (Routledge Revivals) written by David Frisby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fragments of Modernity, first published in 1985, provides a critical introduction to the work of three of the most original German thinkers of the early twentieth century. In their different ways, all three illuminated the experience of the modern urban life, whether in mid nineteenth-century Paris, Berlin at the turn of the twentieth century or later as the vanguard city of the Weimar Republic. They related the new modes of experiencing the world to the maturation of the money economy (Simmel), the process of rationalization of capital (Kracauer) and the fantasy world of commodity fetishism (Benjamin). In each case they focus on those fragments of social experience that could best capture the sense of modernity.

The Problems of Modernity

Author : Andrew E. Benjamin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780415010665
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Problems of Modernity written by Andrew E. Benjamin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Modernism Between Benjamin and Goethe

Author : Matthew Charles
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350013943
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Modernism Between Benjamin and Goethe written by Matthew Charles and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely regarded as one of the foremost cultural critics of the last century, Walter Benjamin's relation to Modernism has largely been understood in the context of his reception of the aesthetic theories of Early German Romanticism and his associated interest in avant-garde Surrealism. But this Romantic understanding only gives half the picture. Running through Benjamin's thought is also a critique of Romanticism, developed in conjunction with a positive engagement with the philosophical, artistic and historical writings of J. W. von Goethe. In demonstrating the significance of these Goethean elements, this book challenges the dominant understanding of Benjamin's philosophy as essentially Romantic and instead proposes that Goethe's Classicism, conceived as the counterpoint to Romanticism, permits a corrective to the latter's deficiencies. Benjamin's Modernist concept of criticism, it is argued, is constituted in the movement between these polarities of Romanticism and Classicism. Conversely, placing Goethe's Classicism in relation to Benjamin's practice of literary criticism reveals historical tensions with Romanticism that constitute the untimely – indeed, it will be argued, cinematic – Modernism of his work. Adopting a transcritical approach, this book alternates between Benjamin and Goethe in relation to the experiences of colour, language and technology, assembling a constellation of philosophical and artistic figures between them, including the writings of Kant, Nietzsche, Cohen, Deleuze, Koselleck, Klages, and the work of Grünewald, Marées, Klee, Turner, Hulme, Eisenstein, Tretyakov, and Murnau.

Walter Benjamin and the Antinomies of Tradition

Author : John Joseph McCole
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801497117
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (971 download)

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Download or read book Walter Benjamin and the Antinomies of Tradition written by John Joseph McCole and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a landmark interpretation of the whole of Benjamin's career, John McCole demonstrates a way of understanding Benjamin that both contextualizes and addresses the complexities and ambiguities of his texts.