Title & Author:

Walter Benjamin and the architecture of modernity / editors Andrew Benjamin, Charles Rice.

Publication:

Melbourne, Australia. : Re.press, 2009.

Description:

1 online resource (vii, 224 pages)

Series:

Anamnesis

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-221).
Front Cover -- Half Title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Imprint -- Copyright -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Andrew Benjamin and Charles rice -- Introduction -- Henry Sussman -- Booking Benjamin: The Fate of a Medium -- Winfried Menninghaus -- On the 'vital significance' of Kitsch. Walter Benjamin's Politics of 'Bad Taste' -- Michael Mack -- Modernity as an unfinished Project: Benjamin and Political Romanticism -- Robert Sinnerbrink -- Violence, Destruction and Sovereignty: Derrida and Agamben on Benjamin's 'Critique of Violence'
Joel Morris -- Graves, Pits and Murderous Plots: Walter Benjamin, Alois Riegl and the German Mourning Play's Dreary Tone of Intrigue -- George Markus -- Benjamin's Critique of Aesthetic Autonomy -- Andrew Benjamin -- Framing Pictures, Transcending Marks: Walter Benjamin's 'Paintings, or Signs and Marks' -- Peter Schmiedgen -- Interiority, Exteriority and Spatial Politics in Benjamin's Cityscapes -- Jo Law -- Time without End: exploring the temporal -- experience of Wong Kar-Wai's 2046 through Walter Benjamin -- Carlo Salzani -- Experience and Play: Walter Benjamin and the Prelapapsarian Child.
Tara Forest -- 'Strange Construct': Benjamin on History and Film -- Bibliography -- Back Cover.

Summary:

Walter Benjamin is universally recognised as one of the key thinkers of modernity: his writings on politics, language, literature, media, theology and law have had an incalculable influence on contemporary thought. Yet the problem of architecture in and for Benjamin's work remains relatively underexamined. Does Benjamin's project have an architecture and, if so, how does this architecture affect the explicit propositions that he offers us? In what ways are Benjamin's writings centrally caught up with architectural concerns, from the redevelopment of major urban centres to the movements that in.

Resources:
ProQuest Ebook Central
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ISBN:

9780980544091 (web)
0980544092 (web)
9780980544022
0980544025

Subject:

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 Influence.
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
Architecture Philosophy.
Architecture, Modern.
Interior architecture.
Architecture intérieure.
Architecture Philosophie.
architectural theory.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Form/genre:

Discursive works.
Collections

Added entries:

Benjamin, Andrew E.
Rice, Charles.
Anamnesis.