On Goethe (Cultural Memory in the Present) - Hardcover

Benjamin, Walter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 150363096X ISBN 13: 9781503630963

Verlag: Stanford University Press, 2025

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On Goethe contains the full range of Walter Benjamin's reflections on the central figure in modern German culture. The writings in this volume―newly translated, fully annotated, and framed by an extensive introduction―display a variety of styles and cover a vast array of topics. The collection revolves around two strikingly different essays. Whereas "Goethe's Elective Affinities" develops a theory of critique in which a work is illuminated wholly from within itself, an article Benjamin wrote on Goethe for the Soviet Encyclopedia represents his first large-scale attempt to elaborate a historical-materialist methodology. The other thirty translations stand in similarly productive tension with one another. Some are concerned with concepts of beauty and categories of the aesthetic, others with the relation of art to politics and the status of "classical authors" in contemporary culture, and still others with what remains of humanistic traditions in the wake of their disappearance under fascist regimes and what synthesis is required for the construction of a historical object. The volume provides a glimpse into the laboratory of Benjamin's thought, while granting readers a series of insights into the epochal phenomena that gather around the name "Goethe."

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Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) was a German Jewish philosopher. Susan Bernstein is Professor of Comparative Literature and German Studies, Brown University.Peter Fenves is Joan and Serapta Harrison Professor of Literature, Northwestern University.Kevin McLaughlin is George Hazard Crooker Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and German Studies, Brown University.

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• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 150363096X
• ISBN 13: 9781503630963
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 277
• Herausgeber: Fenves Peter, McLaughlin Kevin, Bernstein Susan
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