Walter Benjamin and history

Additional authors: Benjamin, Andrew E. | ebrary, Inc.
Series: Walter Benjamin studies series Published by : Continuum, (London ; | New York :) Physical details: 260 p. Year: 2005
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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 N�agele -- 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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