Philosophy and melancholy [electronic resource] : Benjamin's early reflections on theater and language / Ilit Ferber.

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.