Walter Benjamin and Romanticism

by Benjamin, Andrew; Hanssen, Beatrice

• ISBN13: 9780826460219
• ISBN10: 0826460216
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-31
• Publisher: Athlone Pr

Summary

Walter Benjamin and Romanticism explores the relationship between Walter Benjamin's literary and philosophical work and the tradition of German Romanticism, as well as Hlderlin and Goethe. Through a detailed and scholarly analysis of the major texts, the book explores the endurance of Benjamin's relationship to Romanticism, the residual presence of Romantic Goethean and Hlderlinian motifs in Benjamin's subsequent writings and how Benjamin's understanding of the relationship between criticism and Romanticism can still play a vital role in contemporary philosophical and literary practice.Contributors: Andrew Benjamin, Josh Cohen, David Ferris, Beatrice Hanssen, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Charlie Louth, Bettine Menke, Winfried Menninghaus, Anthony Phelan, Sigrid Weigel>

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vi
Abbreviations	vii
Walter Benjamin's Critical Romanticism: An Introduction	1	(6)
Beatrice Hanssen
Andrew Benjamin
Part I Walter Benjamin and the Early Romantics	7	(130)
Introduction to Walter Benjamin's The Concept of Art Criticism in German Romanticism	9	(10)
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
Walter Benjamin's Exposition of the Romantic Theory of Reflection	19	(32)
Winfried Menninghaus
The Sober Absolute: On Benjamin and the Early Romantics	51	(18)
Rodolphe Gasche
Fortgang and Zusammenhang: Walter Benjamin and the Romantic Novel	69	(14)
Anthony Phelan
`However one calls into the forest . . .': Echoes of Translation	83	(15)
Bettine Menke
Unfolding: Reading After Romanticism	98	(11)
Josh Cohen
The Absolute as Translatability: Working through Walter Benjamin on Language	109	(14)
Andrew Benjamin
Jena Romanticism and Benjamin's Critical Epistemology	123	(14)
Fred Rush
Part II Beyond Early Romanticism: Benjamin, Holderlin, Goethe	137	(70)
`Dichtermut' and `Blodigkeit' -- Two Poems by Friedrich Holderlin, Interpreted by Walter Benjamin	139	(24)
Beatrice Hanssen
Poetry's Courage	163	(17)
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
Benjamin's Affinity: Goethe, the Romantics and the Pure Problem of Criticism	180	(17)
David S. Ferris
The Artwork as Breach of a Beyond: On the Dialectic of Divine and Human Order in Walter Benjamin's `Goethe's Elective Affinities'	197	(10)
Sigrid Weigel
Notes	207	(36)
Contributors	243	(2)
Index	245