Title & Author:

Walter Benjamin and the demands of history / edited by Michael P. Steinberg.

Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1996.

Description:

vi, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction: Benjamin and the Critique of Allegorical Reason / Michael P. Steinberg -- 2. The Archaeomodern Turn / Jacques Ranciere -- 3. The Allegory of the Philosophy of History in the Nineteenth Century / Heinz-Dieter Kittsteiner -- 4. The Benjamin Effect: Modernism, Repetition, and the Path to Different Cultural Imaginaries / Harry D. Harootunian -- 5. The Collector as Allegorist: Goods, Gods, and the Objects of History / Michael P. Steinberg -- 6. Strolling through the Colonies / Curtis M. Hinsley -- 7. Acedia and Melancholia / Francoise Meltzer -- 8. Tactics of Remembrance: Proust, Surrealism, and the Origin of the Passagenwerk / Max Pensky -- 9. Smashing the Kaleidoscope: Walter Benjamin's Critique of Cultural History / Irving Wohlfarth -- 10. "Against the Grain": The Dialectical Conception of Culture in Walter Benjamins's Theses of 1940 / Michael Lowy -- 11. Hyphenation: The Spatial Dimensions of Hong Kong Culture / Ackbar Abbas.

Summary:

This book is the first to consider the presence of history and the question of historical practice in Walter Benjamin's work. Benjamin, the critic and philosopher of history, was also the practitioner, the authors contend, and it is in the practice of historical writing that the materialist aspect of his thought is most evident. Some of the essays analyze Benjamin's writings in cultural history and the philosophy of history. Others connect his historical and theoretical practices to issues in contemporary feminism and post-colonial studies, and to cultural contexts including the United States, Japan, and Hong Kong. In different ways, the authors all find in Benjamin's specific notion of historical materialism a dialectic between textual and cultural analysis which can reinvigorate the relation between literary and historical studies. -- From publisher's website.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

0801431352 (alk. paper)
9780801431357 (alk. paper)
0801482577 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780801482571 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 Knowledge and learning.
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 Philosophy.
Bejamin, Walter, 1892-1940.
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.
Benjamin, Walter 1892-1940
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 Criticism and interpretation.
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 Knowledge History.
Benjamin, Walter.
History in literature.
History Philosophy.
Histoire dans la littérature.
Learning and scholarship.
History.
Philosophy.
Geschichtsphilosophie
Geschichtstheorie
Literatuurgeschiedenis (wetenschap)
Dialectiek.
Geschiedfilosofie.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
History.

Added entries:

Steinberg, Michael P.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 127617
Call No.: ID PT2603.E455.Z925; ID:97-B1389
Status: Available