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Benjamin's Passages : Dreaming, Awakening
In transposing the Freudian dream work from the individual subject to the collective, Walter Benjamin projected a ""macroscosmic journey"" of the individual sleeper to ""the dreaming collective, which, through the arcades, communes with its own insides."" Benj...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In transposing the Freudian dream work from the individual subject to the collective, Walter Benjamin projected a ""macroscosmic journey"" of the individual sleeper to ""the dreaming collective, which, through the arcades, communes with its own insides."" Benjamin's effort to transpose the dream phenomenon to the history of a collective remained fragmentary, though it underlies the principle of retrograde temporality, which, it is argued, is central to his idea of history. The ""passages"" are not just the Paris arcades: They refer also to Benjamin's effort to negotiate the labyrinth of his wo. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (240 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780823264162 |