Walter Benjamin and the Antinomies of Tradition / / John McCole.
Few modern thinkers have been as convinced of the necessity of recovering the past in order to redeem the present as Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). Benjamin at once mourned and celebrated what he took to be an inevitable liquidation of traditional culture, and his determination to think both of these...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- A Note on Translations and Citations
- Introduction. Benjamin's Construction of the Antinomies of Tradition
- 1. Benjamin and the Idea of Youth
- 2. The Immanent Critique of Romanticism
- 3. Allegorical Destruction
- 4. Owning up to the Poverty of Experience: Benjamin and Weimar Modernism
- 5. Benjamin and Surrealism: Awakening
- 6. Benjamin and Proust: Remembering
- 7. The Antinomies of Tradition: Historical Rhythms in Benjamin's Late Works
- Conclusion: Benjamin's Recasting of the German Intellectual Tradition
- Bibliography
- Index