Walter Benjamin: The Colour of Experience

by Caygill,Howard

• ISBN13: 9780415089593
• ISBN10: 041508959X
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1998-01-16
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In this major reinterpretation, Howard Caygill argues that all of Benjamin's work is characterized by its focus on a concept of experience derived from Kant but applied by Benjamin to objects as diverse as urban experience, visual art, literature and philosophy. The book analyzes the development of Benjamin's concept of experience in his early writings showing that it emerges from an engagement with visual experience, and in particular the experience of colour. By representing Benjamin as primarily a thinker of the visual field, Caygill is able to bring forward previously neglected texts on inscription and the visual field and to cast many of his more familiar texts, for instance theWork of Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproductionin a new light.

Table of Contents

Quote	p. vi
Preface and Acknowledgements	p. ix
References and Abbreviations	p. x
Introduction	p. xi
The Programme of the Coming Philosophy	p. 1
Speculative Critique	p. 34
The Work of Art	p. 80
The Experience of the City	p. 118
the Colour of Experience	p. 149
Notes	p. 153
Bibliography	p. 160
Index	p. 163
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