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Walter Benjamin and history [electronic resource] / edited by Andrew Benjamin.

Contributor(s): Benjamin, Andrew E | ebrary, Inc.
Series: Walter Benjamin studies series: Publisher: London ; New York : Continuum, c2005Description: 260 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 | History -- PhilosophyGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 838/.91209 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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