Words of Light : : Theses on the Photography of History / / Eduardo Cadava.

Here Eduardo Cadava demonstrates that Walter Benjamin articulates his conception of history through the language of photography. Focusing on Benjamin's discussions of the flashes and images of history, he argues that the questions raised by this link between photography and history touch on iss...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
©1996
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface: Phōtagōgós
  • HISTORY
  • HELIOTROPISM
  • ORIGINS
  • MORTIFICATION
  • GHOSTS
  • MIMESIS
  • TRANSLATIONS
  • INSCRIPTIONS
  • LIGHTNING
  • STARS
  • ETERNAL RETURN
  • REPRODUCIBILITY
  • POLITICS
  • DANGER
  • CAESURA
  • TRACES
  • NIGHTDREAMS
  • TWILIGHT
  • AWAKENING
  • LANGUAGE
  • MATTER
  • REFLECTIONS
  • PSYCHES
  • SHOCKS
  • SIMILARITY
  • PETRIFICATION
  • DEATH
  • EPITAPHS
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index