Walter Benjamin and Romanticism

by Hanssen, Beatrice; Benjamin, Andrew E.

• ISBN13: 9780826460202
• ISBN10: 0826460208
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Academic

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