Walter Benjamin [electronic resource] : a philosophical portrait / Eli Friedlander.
Friedlander, Eli.
2012
B3209.B584 F75 2012eb
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Title Walter Benjamin [electronic resource] : a philosophical portrait / Eli Friedlander.
Author Friedlander, Eli.
ISBN 9780674063020 (electronic book)
9780674061699
Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 285 p.)
Call Number B3209.B584 F75 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 193
Summary Friedlander finds in Benjamin's early works initial formulations of the different dimensions of his philosophical thinking. He leads through them to Benjamin's views on the dialectical image, the nature of language, the relation of beauty and truth, embodiment, dream and historical awakening, myth and history, as well as the afterlife and realization of meaning. Those notions are articulated both in themselves and in relation to central figures of the philosophical tradition. They are further viewed as leading to and coming together in The Arcades Project. Friedlander takes that incomplete work to be the central theater where these earlier philosophical preoccupations were to be played out. Benjamin envisaged in it the possibility of the highest order of thought taking the form of writing whose contents are the concrete time-bound particularities of human experience. Addressing the question of the possibility of such a presentation of philosophical truth provides the guiding thread for constellating the disparate moments of Benjamin's writings."--pub. desc.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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