Walter Benjamin and history

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Benjamin, Andrew E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Continuum, c2005.
Series:Walter Benjamin studies series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Andrew Benjamin
  • The supposition of the aura: the now, the then, and modernity / Georges Didi-Huberman
  • The shortness of history, or photography In Nuce: Benjamin's attenuation of the negative / David Ferris
  • 'Now': Walter Benjamin on historical time / Werner Hamacher
  • Down the K. hole: Walter Benjamin's destructive land-surveying of history / Stephanie Polsky
  • The sickness of tradition: between melancholia and fetishism / Rebecca Comay
  • Trembling contours: Kierkegaard-Benjamin-Brecht / Rainer Nägele
  • The subject of history: the temporality of parataxis in Benjamin's historiography / Dimitris Vardoulakis
  • Tradition as injunction: Benjamin and the critique of historicisms / Philippe Simay
  • Boredom and distraction: the moods of modernity / Andrew Benjamin
  • Walter Benjamin's interior history / Charles Rice
  • What is the matter with architectural history? / Gevork Hartoonian
  • Messianic epistemology: Thesis XV / Robert Gibbs
  • Non-messianic political theology in Benjamin's 'On the concept of history' / Howard Caygill.