Words of light : theses on the photography of history /

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Focusing on Walter Benjamin's discussions of the flashes and images of history, this book argues that the questions raised by this link between photography and history touch on issues that belong to the entire trajectory of Benjamin's writings.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cadava, Eduardo (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1997]
Series:Princeton paperbacks.
Subjects:
Benjamin, Walter, > 1892-1940.
Benjamin, Walter, > 1892-1940
Photography > Philosophy.
Historiography.
Historiography
Photographie > Philosophie.
Historiographie.
historiography.
COMPUTERS > Digital Media > Photography.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Reference.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Imaging Systems.
Photography > Philosophy
Fotografie.
Filosofie.
Geschiedschrijving.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • History
  • Heliotropism
  • Origins
  • Mortification
  • Ghosts
  • Mimesis
  • Translations
  • Inscriptions
  • Lightning
  • Stars
  • Eternal return
  • Reproducibility
  • Politics
  • Danger
  • Caesura
  • Traces
  • Nightdreams
  • Twilight
  • Awakening
  • Language
  • Matter
  • Reflections
  • Psyches
  • Shocks
  • Similarity
  • Petrification
  • Death
  • Epitaphs.

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