Walter Benjamin: Theoretical Questions - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804725705 ISBN 13: 9780804725705

Verlag: Stanford University Press, 1996

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This collection of nine essays focuses on those writings of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) on literature and language that have a direct relevance to contemporary literary theory, notably his analyses of myth, violence, history, criticism, literature, and mass media.

In an introductory essay, David S. Ferris discusses the problem of history, aura, and resistance in Benjamin's later work and in its reception. Samuel Weber, in a reading of Benjamin's most influential essay, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," analyzes the status of the image and technology in Benjamin's own terms and in the shadow of Heidegger. Rodolphe Gasché devotes himself to an analysis of Benjamin's dissertation on the German Romantics, providing a valuable guide to a major text that has yet to appear in English translation.

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David S. Ferris is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Queen's College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Theory and the Evasion of History.

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This collection of nine essays focuses on those writings of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) on literature and language that have a direct relevance to contemporary literary theory, notably his analyses of myth, violence, history, criticism, literature, and mass media.
In an introductory essay, David S. Ferris discusses the problem of history, aura, and resistance in Benjamin’s later work and in its reception. Samuel Weber, in a reading of Benjamin’s most influential essay, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” analyzes the status of the image and technology in Benjamin’s own terms and in the shadow of Heidegger. Rodolphe Gasché devotes himself to an analysis of Benjamin’s dissertation on the German Romantics, providing a valuable guide to a major text that has yet to appear in English translation.

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This collection of nine essays focuses on those writings of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) on literature and language that have a direct relevance to contemporary literary theory, notably his analyses of myth, violence, history, criticism, literature, and mass media.
In an introductory essay, David S. Ferris discusses the problem of history, aura, and resistance in Benjamin s later work and in its reception. Samuel Weber, in a reading of Benjamin s most influential essay, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, analyzes the status of the image and technology in Benjamin s own terms and in the shadow of Heidegger. Rodolphe Gasché devotes himself to an analysis of Benjamin s dissertation on the German Romantics, providing a valuable guide to a major text that has yet to appear in English translation.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0804725705
• ISBN 13: 9780804725705
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 262
• Herausgeber: Ferris David S.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Mare Nostrum Group B.V.; gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk; ; Doelen 72; Breda; 4831 GR; Niederlande