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Walter Benjamin: Theoretical Questions

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This collection of nine essays focuses on those writings of Walter Benjamin 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.

Language: English

Pages: 260

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Release: July 01, 1996

ISBN: 0804725705

ISBN 13: 9780804725705

Walter Benjamin: Theoretical Questions

4.3/5 ( ratings)

This collection of nine essays focuses on those writings of Walter Benjamin 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.

Language: English

Pages: 260

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Release: July 01, 1996

ISBN: 0804725705

ISBN 13: 9780804725705

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