Philosophy and melancholy Benjamin's early reflections on theater and language /
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| Language: | English |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Cultural memory in the present
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Table of Contents:
- Benjamin and Freud : at the juncture of melancholy loss
- Commitment and loyalty to the lost object
- The intentionless nature of truth
- Work and play : a view of melancholic productivity
- The Trauerspiel : reflections on the baroque
- Expressions of pain in the Trauerspiel
- The bombastic nature of expression in the Trauerspiel
- Pain and spectacle : the figure of the martyr
- Death and meaning : the figure of the ghost
- Language and loss : Benjamin's concept of expression
- Creation and loss : "on language as such"
- Lament : language and sadness
- The ghosts of language : "the task of the translator"
- The "epistemo-critical prologue"
- The "monad" : Leibniz and Benjamin
- The monads' configuration as a hierarchy
- A pre-established harmony : Benjamin's conception of truth as harmony
- Stimmung : philosophy and mood.