Walter Benjamin and the Actuality of Critique Essays on Violence and Experience.
The striking actuality of Walter Benjamin's work does not rest on a supposed ""usefulness"" of his philosophy for current concerns, but rather on the high ""legibility"" to which his oeuvre has come in the present. Indeed, this legibility is a function of...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Cambridge Scholars Publisher,
2021.
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| Online Access: | EBSCOhost Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
| Summary: | The striking actuality of Walter Benjamin's work does not rest on a supposed ""usefulness"" of his philosophy for current concerns, but rather on the high ""legibility"" to which his oeuvre has come in the present. Indeed, this legibility is a function of critique, which unearths the truth-content of a work in a constellation of reading with the present, and assures thereby that the work lives on. Following this methodological tenet, this book approaches Benjamin's work with two foci: the actuality of his critique of violence, a central and unavoidable topic in the contemporary political-philo. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (222 p.) |
| ISBN: | 1527573168 9781527573161 |