Melancholy Dialectics
Walter Benjamin and the Play of Mourning
Published on 18. July 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-1-55849-296-7 (ISBN)
Description
A comprehensive view of Benjamin's achievement, focusing on the central ideas of mourning and melancholia, developed in Benjamin's early work, "Origin of German Tragic Drama" (1928). Pensky sees the contradictions in Benjamin's thought as part of the melancholy way of seeing.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Massachusetts
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-55849-296-7 (9781558492967)
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MAX PENSKY is associate professor of philosophy at Binghamton University.