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Walter Benjamin and the Antinomies of Tradition /

Few modern thinkers have been as convinced of the necessity of recovering the past in order to redeem the present as Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). Benjamin at once mourned and celebrated what he took to be an inevitable liquidation of traditional culture, and his determination to think both of these...

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Autor principal: McCole, John (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • A Note on Translations and Citations
  • Introduction. Benjamin's Construction of the Antinomies of Tradition
  • 1. Benjamin and the Idea of Youth
  • 2. The Immanent Critique of Romanticism
  • 3. Allegorical Destruction
  • 4. Owning up to the Poverty of Experience: Benjamin and Weimar Modernism
  • 5. Benjamin and Surrealism: Awakening
  • 6. Benjamin and Proust: Remembering
  • 7. The Antinomies of Tradition: Historical Rhythms in Benjamin's Late Works
  • Conclusion: Benjamin's Recasting of the German Intellectual Tradition
  • Bibliography
  • Index