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Walter Benjamin's philosophy : destruction and experience / edited by Andrew Benjamin and Peter Osborne

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London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 298 pages).
Additional Creators
Benjamin, Andrew E. and Osborne, Peter, 1958-
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Contents
Walter Benjamin's Philosophy: Destruction and Experience; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Destruction and Experience; 1 Benjamin, Heidegger and the Destruction of Tradition; 2 Tradition and Destruction: Walter Benjamin's Politics of Language; 3 Small-scale Victories, Large-scale Defeats: Walter Benjamin's Politics of Time; 4 Afformative, Strike: Benjamin's 'Critique of Violence'; 5 Beware Mexican Ruins! 'One-Way Street' and the Colonial Unconscious; 6 No-man's-land: On Walter Benjamin's 'Destructive Character' and 7 Objective Diversions: On Some Kantian Themes in Benjamin's 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction'8 Cosmos in Film: On the Concept of Space in Walter Benjamin's 'Work of Art' Essay; 9 Time and Task: Benjamin and Heidegger Showing the Present; 10 Benjamin's Endgame; Index.
Summary
This collection explores, in Adorno's description, `philosophy directed against philosophy'. The essays cover all aspects of Benjamin's writings, from his early work in the philosophy of art and language, through to the concept of history. The experience of time and the destruction of false continuity are identified as the key themes in Benjamin's understanding of history.
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9781134679140 (electronic bk.)
1134679149 (electronic bk.)
0415083680
9780415083683
0415083699
9780415083690
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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