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Thinking in constellations : Walter Benjamin in the humanities /

With his powerful thought image of the constellation, Walter Benjamin provides a method for the core practices of the Humanities: reading, writing, and thinking. This collection of provocative essays demonstrates how thinking in constellations with Walter Benjamin leads us towards a new understandin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sahraoui, Nassima (Editor ), Sauter, Caroline (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Intro; Table of Contents; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; I: The Starry Skies of Philosophy; From Kant's Starry Skies to Kafka's Odradek; The Name as the Navel; II: A Firmament of Ideas; Constellation and Expression in Leibniz and; Constellation and Configuration; III: Capitalism's Mourning Play and the Rags of History; The History of Production and the Production of History; The Poetics of The Rag Collector; IV: Directing Constellations; Distracted Images; Surviving Civilization with Mickey Mouse and a Laugh; V: Reading (in) Constellations; The Gothic Third World