Stephane Symons

Broschiertes Buch

Work of Forgetting

Or, How Can We Make the Future Possible?

Beschreibung

This book presents a critical discussion of the turn to memory, a key evolution in the humanities in the last 50 years. It offers an innovative interpretation of Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history and his oeuvre at large, taking a thematic approach to the issue of forgetting, based on detailed readings of key philosophers of the 20th century.

Autor

Stephane Symons is Assistant Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy at KU Leuven, Belgium. He is the author of Walter Benjamin: Presence of Mind, Failure to Comprehend (Brill, 2013) and More than Life: Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin on Art (Northwestern UP, 2017), editor of The Marriage of Aesthetics and Ethics (Brill, 2015) and co-editor of Walter Benjamin and Theology (Fordham UP, 2015).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9781538158272
• ISBN-10: 1538158272
• Artikelnr.: 62595060