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- Summary
- Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) has emerged as one of the leading cultural critics of the twentieth century. His work encompasses aesthetics, metaphysical language and narrative theories, German literary history, philosophies of history, the intersection of Marxism and Messianic thought, urban topography, and the development of photography and film. Central to European modernism, Benjamin's texts are indebted to traditions such as the Baroque and Romanticism while reflecting the cataclysmic political changes before the Second World War. Nonetheless, Benjamin's disavowal of strict philosophical systems, his highly allusive arguments, metaphorical conceptualizations, and montage-like thought figures allow his texts to be reinterpreted in today's culture and in contemporary disciplines in ways that often go beyond his original intentions and historical contexts. Benjamin defined the task of the critic as one that blasts endangered moments of the past out of the continuum of history so that they attain new significance. This volume of new essays employs this principle of actualization as its methodological program in offering a new advanced introduction to Benjamin's own work. The essays analyze Benjamin's central texts, themes, terminologies, and genres in their original contexts while simultaneously situating them in new parameters, such as contemporary media, memory culture, constructions of gender, postcoloniality, and theories of urban topographies. Thus Benjamin's significance today emerges not as a uniform presence of established texts and their accepted readings, but as a dynamic network of his work's affiliations with other texts, other cultures, other times. The 'Companion' brings together an international group of established and emerging scholars to explicate Benjamin's actuality from a multidisciplinary perspective. Designed for audiences interested in literary criticism, cultural studies, and neighboring disciplines, the volume serves as a stimulus for new debates about the critic's intellectual legacy today. Rolf J. Goebel is Professor of German at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He is the author of 'Kritik und Revision: Kafkas Rezeption mythologischer, biblischer und historischer Traditionen' (1986), 'Constructing China: Kafka's Orientalist Discourse' (1997), and 'Benjamin heute: Großstadtdiskurs, Postkolonialität und Flanerie zwischen den Kulturen' (2001). He is also a coauthor of 'A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia' (2005) and has written articles on Kafka, Benjamin, orientalism, representations of urban topographies, especially Berlin, and other topics in modern literature and culture
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 314 p.)
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- 9781571137272
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- A companion to the works of Walter Benjamin
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- A companion to the works of Walter Benjamin
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- edited by Rolf J. Goebel
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) has emerged as one of the leading cultural critics of the twentieth century. His work encompasses aesthetics, metaphysical language and narrative theories, German literary history, philosophies of history, the intersection of Marxism and Messianic thought, urban topography, and the development of photography and film. Central to European modernism, Benjamin's texts are indebted to traditions such as the Baroque and Romanticism while reflecting the cataclysmic political changes before the Second World War. Nonetheless, Benjamin's disavowal of strict philosophical systems, his highly allusive arguments, metaphorical conceptualizations, and montage-like thought figures allow his texts to be reinterpreted in today's culture and in contemporary disciplines in ways that often go beyond his original intentions and historical contexts. Benjamin defined the task of the critic as one that blasts endangered moments of the past out of the continuum of history so that they attain new significance. This volume of new essays employs this principle of actualization as its methodological program in offering a new advanced introduction to Benjamin's own work. The essays analyze Benjamin's central texts, themes, terminologies, and genres in their original contexts while simultaneously situating them in new parameters, such as contemporary media, memory culture, constructions of gender, postcoloniality, and theories of urban topographies. Thus Benjamin's significance today emerges not as a uniform presence of established texts and their accepted readings, but as a dynamic network of his work's affiliations with other texts, other cultures, other times. The 'Companion' brings together an international group of established and emerging scholars to explicate Benjamin's actuality from a multidisciplinary perspective. Designed for audiences interested in literary criticism, cultural studies, and neighboring disciplines, the volume serves as a stimulus for new debates about the critic's intellectual legacy today. Rolf J. Goebel is Professor of German at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He is the author of 'Kritik und Revision: Kafkas Rezeption mythologischer, biblischer und historischer Traditionen' (1986), 'Constructing China: Kafka's Orientalist Discourse' (1997), and 'Benjamin heute: Großstadtdiskurs, Postkolonialität und Flanerie zwischen den Kulturen' (2001). He is also a coauthor of 'A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia' (2005) and has written articles on Kafka, Benjamin, orientalism, representations of urban topographies, especially Berlin, and other topics in modern literature and culture
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- Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
- Online access with purchase: EBSCO (Annual limit multiple access) (Dawsonera switch)
- Studies in German literature, linguistics and culture
- Camden House companion volumes
- Online access with EBA: JSTOR
- Online access with purchase: Dawsonera (Annual limit multiple access)
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- Dewey number
- 838.91209
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PT2603.E455
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- Z595 2009
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- non fiction
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- 1952-
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- Goebel, Rolf J.
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- Benjamin, Walter
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- A companion to the works of Walter Benjamin, edited by Rolf J. Goebel, (electronic book)
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 314 p.)
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- A companion to the works of Walter Benjamin, edited by Rolf J. Goebel, (electronic book)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- online resource
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- text
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
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- DAW19038784
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 314 p.)
- Form of item
- electronic
- Isbn
- 9781571137272
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
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- Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
- Online access with purchase: EBSCO (Annual limit multiple access) (Dawsonera switch)
- Studies in German literature, linguistics and culture
- Camden House companion volumes
- Online access with EBA: JSTOR
- Online access with purchase: Dawsonera (Annual limit multiple access)
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