Introducing Walter Benjamin
A Graphic Guide
Published on 3. September 2015
176 pages
978-1-78578-019-6 (ISBN)
Description
Walter Benjamin is often considered the key modern philosopher and critic of modern art.
Tracing his influence on modern aesthetics and cultural history, Introducing Walter Benjamin highlights his commitment to political transformation of the arts as a means to bring about social change.
Benjamin witnessed first-hand many of the cataclysmic events of modern European history. He took a critical stance on the dominant ideologies of Marxism, Zionism and Technocracy, and his attempt to flee Nazi Europe ultimately led to his suicide in 1940.
With its brilliant combination of words and images, this is an ideal introduction to one of the most elusive philosophers.
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Howard Caygill is Professor Of Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, London.|Alex Coles is Professor of Transdisciplinary Studies at the University of Huddesrfield.
Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- The Passionate Critic
- Snapshots of A Berlin Childhood
- The Peripatetic Philosophy Student
- Kant and Neo-Kantianism
- Apriorism
- Phenomenology
- Pro- Or Anti-zionism?
- "What were you doing on 4 August 1914?"
- Betrayal and Revolution
- How to Avoid Conscription
- Friendship with Gershom Scholem
- Greek Tragedy
- Trauerspiel or Mourning Play
- On Language
- The Experience of Freedom
- The Experience of Colour
- German Romantic Art Criticism
- The Concept of Ruination
- Parental Strife
- The Failed Editor
- Conflict with the George Circle
- The Story of Elective Affinities
- Benjamin's Affinities
- The Task of the Critic
- The Task of the Translator
- The Bookman
- ... And the Media Man
- Riegl Versus Wölfflin
- The Transition from Haptic to Optic
- The Aesthetics of Disintegration
- Riegl's Structuralism
- The Task of the Art Critic
- Children's Books
- Line or Colour?
- The Optic of Technology
- The Collector
- Benjamin the Nomad
- Introduction to Marxism
- Mediation
- Reification
- The Bolshevik Verdict
- The Porosity of Naples
- Spatial and Temporal Porosity
- A Dictator's Visit
- Introducing the Arcade
- Looking Ahead .
- Past, Present and Future
- Moscow Diary
- Sovereign Violence
- The Religion of Capitalism
- The Origin of German Tragic Drama
- What is "Baroque"?
- Political Theologies
- A Nihilistic Toy-box
- Symbol, Allegory and Ruination
- A University Scandal
- A Fairytale for Academics
- One-way Street
- Scenes from One-way Street: Writing
- ... And Technology
- Benjamin, the Surrealist
- Teddy and Bert
- The Frankfurt Institute
- Dissimilar Similarities
- "The Hard Thing Gives Way"
- "The Presence of the past, Now"
- The Art of Montage
- The Dark Age Begins
- The Great Dictator .
- . Seen as Charlie Chaplin
- The Author as Producer
- The Age of Reproduction
- The Painter and the Camera-man
- Mass Reproduction
- History of the Aura
- The Decay of the Aura
- Uncertainties and Ambiguities
- Criticisms of Benjamin's Position
- Kafka and Benjamin's Mysticism
- The Kabbala
- Which Benjamin?
- Origins of the Arcades Project
- A Central Architectural Motif
- A Marathon Project
- Materialist Ventriloquism
- The Maverick Historian
- Phantasmagoria and Dialectical Images
- Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century
- 1. Fourier, or the Arcades
- 2. Daguerre, or the Panoramas
- 3. Grandville, or the World Exhibitions
- 4. Louis Philippe, or the Interior
- 5. Baudelaire, or the Streets of Paris
- 6. Haussmann, or the Barricades
- Troubles with the Institute
- The Exile in Danger
- Last Exit .
- Theology and History
- Samples From the "Theses"
- Time Runs Out .
- In Transit
- The Last Day
- Further Reading
- Biographies of Walter Benjamin
- Acknowledgements
- The Authors
