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Philosophy and melancholy : Benjamin's early reflections on theater and language /

This book traces the concept of melancholy in Walter Benjamin's early writings. Rather than focusing on the overtly melancholic subject matter of Benjamin's work or the unhappy circumstances of his own fate, Ferber considers the concept's implications for his philosophy. Informed by H...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ferber, Ilit
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2013.
Colección:Cultural memory in the present.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Benjamin and Freud : at the juncture of melancholy loss
  • Commitment and loyalty to the lost object
  • The intentionless nature of truth
  • Work and play : a view of melancholic productivity
  • The Trauerspiel : reflections on the baroque
  • Expressions of pain in the Trauerspiel
  • The bombastic nature of expression in the Trauerspiel
  • Pain and spectacle : the figure of the martyr
  • Death and meaning : the figure of the ghost
  • Language and loss : Benjamin's concept of expression
  • Creation and loss : "on language as such"
  • Lament : language and sadness
  • The ghosts of language : "the task of the translator"
  • The "epistemo-critical prologue"
  • The "monad" : Leibniz and Benjamin
  • The monads' configuration as a hierarchy
  • A pre-established harmony : Benjamin's conception of truth as harmony
  • Stimmung : philosophy and mood.