Walter Benjamin and Romanticism
Published on 1. November 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-8264-6021-9 (ISBN)
Description
This text explores the relationship between Walter Benjamin's literary and philosophical work and the tradition of German Romanticism, as well as Holderlin and Goethe. Through a detailed and scholarly analysis of the major texts, the book explores the endurance of Benjamin's relationship to Romanticism, the residual presence of Romantic Goethean and Holderlinian motifs in Benjamin's subsequent writings and how Benjamin's understanding of the relationship between criticism and Romanticism can still play a vital role in contemporary philosophical and literary practice. Contributors include Andrew Benjamin, Josh Cohen, David Ferris, Beatrice Hanssen, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Charlie Louth, Bettine Menke, Winfried Menninghaus, Anthony Phelan and Sigrid Weigel.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
395 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-6021-9 (9780826460219)
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Persons
Andrew Benjamin is Professor of Critical Theory and Philosophical Aesthetics at Monash University, Australia. His previous publications include: Writing Art and Architecture(Re: press, 2010) Of Jews and Animals (Edinburgh University Press, 2010), Style and Time: Essays on the Politics of Appearance (Northwestern UP, 2006), Disclosing Spaces: On Painting (Clinamen Press, 2004), Philosophy's Literature (Clinamen Press, 2001) and Present Hope: Philosophy, Aesthetics, Judaism (Routledge, 1997). He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2005. Beatrice Hanssen is Professor of Germanic and Slavic Languages, University of Georgia, USA.
Content
Walter Benjamin and the Early Romantics: introduction to Walter Benjamin's "The Concept of Art Criticism in German Romanticism"; Walter Benjamin's Exposition of the Romantic Theory of Reflection; the Sober Absolute - On Benjamin and the Early Romantics; Fortgang and Zusammenhang - Walter Benjamin and the Romantic Novel; However One Calls Into the Forest - Echoes of Translation; Unfolding - Reading After Romanticism; The Absolute as Translatability - Working Through Walter Benjamin on Language; Benjamin, Romanticism, and the Foundations of Critical Theory. Beyond Early Romanticism - Benjamin, H lderlin, Goethe: "Dichtermut" and "Bl digkeit" - Two Poems by Friedrich H lderlin, interpreted by Walter Benjamin and Beatrice Hanssen; Poetry's Courage; Benjamin's Affinity - Goethe, the Romantics, and the Pure Problem of Criticism; The Artwork as Breach of a Beyond - On the Dialectic of Divine and Human Order in Walter Benjamin's "Goethe's Elective Affinities".