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Author : Gerhard Richter
Release : 2016
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Book Rating : 273/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Inheriting Walter Benjamin by : Gerhard Richter
Download or read book Inheriting Walter Benjamin written by Gerhard Richter. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerhard Richter
Release : 2016-02-25
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Inheriting Walter Benjamin by : Gerhard Richter
Download or read book Inheriting Walter Benjamin written by Gerhard Richter. This book was released on 2016-02-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerhard Richter examines, in the work of Walter Benjamin, one of the central problems of modernity: the question of how to receive an intellectual inheritance. Covering aspects of Benjamin's complex relationship to the legacies of such writers as Kant, Nietzsche, Kafka, Heidegger, and Derrida, each chapter attends to a key concern in Benjamin's writing, while reflecting on the challenges that this issue presents for the question of inheritability and transmissibility. Both reading Benjamin and watching himself reading Benjamin, Richter participates in the act of inheriting while also inquiring into the conditions of possibility for inheriting Benjamin's corpus today.
Author : Howard Eiland
Release : 2014-01-20
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 200/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Walter Benjamin by : Howard Eiland
Download or read book Walter Benjamin written by Howard Eiland. This book was released on 2014-01-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Benjamin was perhaps the twentieth century's most elusive intellectual. His writings defy categorization, and his improvised existence has proven irresistible to mythologizers. In a major new biography, Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings present a comprehensive portrait of the man and his times, as well as extensive commentary on his work.
Author : Brian Britt
Release : 2016-05-31
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 210/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Postsecular Benjamin by : Brian Britt
Download or read book Postsecular Benjamin written by Brian Britt. This book was released on 2016-05-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In readings of Walter Benjamin's work, religion often marks a boundary between scholarly camps, but it rarely receives close and sustained scrutiny. Benjamin's most influential writings pertain to modern art and culture, but he frequently used religious language while rejecting both secularism and religious revival. Benjamin was, in today's terms, postsecular. Postsecular Benjamin explicates Benjamin's engagements with religious traditions as resources for contemporary debates on secularism, conflict, and identity. Brian Britt argues that what animates this work on tradition is the question of human agency, which he pursues through lively and sustained experimentation with ways of thinking, reading, and writing.
Author : Walter Benjamin
Release : 2016-07-26
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Storyteller by : Walter Benjamin
Download or read book The Storyteller written by Walter Benjamin. This book was released on 2016-07-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful collection of the legendary thinker’s short stories The Storyteller gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his groundbreaking studies of culture and literature, including Illuminations, One-Way Street and The Arcades Project. His stories revel in the erotic tensions of city life, cross the threshold between rational and hallucinatory realms, celebrate the importance of games, and delve into the peculiar relationship between gambling and fortune-telling, and explore the themes that defined Benjamin. The novellas, fables, histories, aphorisms, parables and riddles in this collection are brought to life by the playful imagery of the modernist artist and Bauhaus figure Paul Klee.
