Philosophy and melancholy Benjamin's early reflections on theater and language /

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Autor Principal: Ferber, Ilit
Autor Corporativo: ebrary, Inc
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2013.
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.