Richard Lane

Reading Walter Benjamin

Writing through the catastrophe

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Produktbeschreibung

A new reading of Walter Benjamin that places his work in historical context and explores the theoretical links with German and Jewish philosophy and theology. The book also provides unique readings of Benjamin and the British artist Rachel Whiteread and British experimental author B.S. Johnson.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 319g
• ISBN-13: 9780719064371
• ISBN-10: 0719064376
• Artikelnr.: 22364128

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. 'Kulturpessimisus' & the new thinking The decline of the West
Messianic new thinking 3. Metaphysics of youth: Wyneken & 'Rausch' Wyneken
Youth's legacy
'Rausch' - youth's intoxication
The metaphysics of youth 4. History: Surreal messianism Eternal return
Profane illumination
Surrealism
Messianic time 5. Goethe and the 'Georgekreis' The struggle with an angel
The essay form
Goethe as critical constellation
Death's detour 6. Kant's experience Reduction & restriction
The despot of pure reason
The Kantian distance 7. Casting the work of art Aesthetic judgement
"Space Under My Steel Chair"
The series
Fixed-explosive
Memorial aesthetics 8. Narrative order & modern fiction Shuffle, or, order and de-formation
Just gaming
Benjamin, Johnson & Wittgenstein
Aphorism 9. Conclusion: Exile & the time of crisis Reconfiguring repetition
Weapons of mass destruction
disrupting singularity
Postscript on crisis time Glossary of German words and expressions Bibliography