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9780415083690

Walter Benjamin's Philosophy

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415083690

  • ISBN10:

    0415083699

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1993-12-01
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

This collection explores, in Adorno's description, philosophy directed against philosophy'. The essays cover all aspects of Benjamin's writings, from his early work in the philosophy of art and language, through to the concept of history. The experience of time and the destruction of false continuity are identified as the key themes in Benjamin's understanding of history.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Destruction and Experience
Benjamin, Heidegger and the Destruction of Traditionp. 1
Tradition and Destruction: Walter Benjamin's Politics of Languagep. 32
Small-scale Victories, Large-scale Defeats: Walter Benjamin's Politics of Timep. 59
Afformative, Strike: Benjamin's 'Critique of Violence'p. 110
Beware Mexican Ruins! 'One-Way Street' and the Colonial Unconsciousp. 139
No-man's-land: On Walter Benjamin's 'Destructive Character'p. 155
Objective Diversions: On Some Kantian Themes in Benjamin's 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction'p. 183
Cosmos in Film: On the Concept of Space in Walter Benjamin's 'Work of Art' Essayp. 205
Time and Task: Benjamin and Heidegger Showing the Presentp. 216
Benjamin's Endgamep. 251
Indexp. 292
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