Walter Benjamin's Philosophy: Destruction and ExperienceThis collection explores, in Adorno's description, Benjamin's 'philosophy directed against philosophy .' The essays cover all aspects of his writings, from his early work in the philosophy of art and language, through to his concept of history.This collection explores, in Adorno's description, 'philosophy directed against philosophy'. The essays cover all aspects of Benjamin's writings, from his early work in the philosophy of art and language, through to the concept of history. The experience of time and the destruction of false continuity are identified as the key themes in Benjamin's understanding of history. |
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Contents
1 Benjamin Heidegger and the Destruction of Tradition | 1 |
Walter Benjamins Politics of Language | 32 |
Walter Benjamins Politics of Time | 59 |
Benjamins Critique of Violence | 110 |
5 Beware Mexican Ruins OneWay Street and the Colonial Unconscious | 139 |
On Walter Benjamins Destructive Character | 155 |
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Walter Benjamin's Philosophy: Destruction and Experience Andrew Benjamin,Peter Osborne Limited preview - 2013 |
Walter Benjamin's Philosophy: Destruction and Experience Andrew Benjamin,Peter Osborne Limited preview - 2013 |
Walter Benjamin's Philosophy: Destruction and Experience Andrew E. Benjamin,Peter Osborne No preview available - 1994 |
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Adorno aesthetic aestheticization afformative Age of Mechanical already apocatastasis appearance Arcades Project artwork aura auratic authenticity avant-garde Baudelaire becomes Benja Benjamin writes Benjamin’s thought Brecht concept configuration conflict constitutive critical critique cultural defined definition destructive character difficulty epochal present essay experience Fascism figure film final find first Frankfurt am Main fulfilment future German Tragic Drama Gershom Scholem Gesammelte Schriften Hegel’s Heidegger Heidegger’s historical object historicism human Ibid idea identified ideology Illuminations imparting infinite Kafka’s language Leibniz marks Marxism means Mechanical Reproduction mediacy Messianic metaphysics modern monad Monadology montage now-time One-Way Street one’s ontology Origin of German Passagen-Werk past philosophy philosophy of history political positing possibility precisely pure violence question radical redemption reflections relation remains repetition revolution revolutionary Scholem sense significance singular social specific structure Suhrkamp Surrealism Surrealist teleology temporal theology theory tradition translated Trauerspiel truth unique Walter Benjamin Werner Kraft
Bibliographic information
| Title | Walter Benjamin's Philosophy: Destruction and Experience Warwick studies in European philosophy |
| Editors | Andrew E. Benjamin, Andrew Benjamin, Peter Osborne |
| Publisher | Psychology Press, 1994 |
| ISBN | 0415083680, 9780415083683 |
| Length | 298 pages |
| Subjects | › › Philosophy / History & Surveys / General |
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