A Companion to the Works of Walter Benjamin

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Edited by Rolf J. Goebel, University of Alabama, Huntsville

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: February 2023
Print publication year:: 2009
Online ISBN:: 9781571137272
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781571137272

Subjects:: History of Philosophy, Literature, European and World Literature: General Interest, Philosophy
Series:: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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A Companion to the Works of Walter Benjamin
Edited by Rolf J. Goebel
Online ISBN: 9781571137272

Book DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781571137272
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An advanced introduction to Benjamin's work and its actualization for our own times.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Preface
pp vii-viii

Sources of Benjamin’s Works
pp ix-x

Chronology of Benjamin’s Major Works
pp xi-xiv

Introduction: Benjamin’s Actuality
pp 1-22

1 - Walter Benjamin's Criticism of Language and Literature
pp 23-45

2 - The Presence of the Baroque: Benjamin’s Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels in Contemporary Contexts
pp 46-69

3 - Lost Orders of the Day: Benjamin's Einbahnstraße
pp 70-90

4 - Literature as the Medium of Collective Memory: Reading Benjamin’s Einbahnstraße, “Der Erzähler,” and “Das Paris des Second Empire bei Baudelaire”
pp 91-111

5 - Benjamin in the Age of New Media
pp 112-129

6 - One Little Rule: On Benjamin, Autobiography, and Never Using the Word “I”
pp 130-152

7 - The Passagen-Werk Revisited: The Dialectics of Fragmentation and Reconfiguration in Urban Modernity
pp 153-176

8 - Benjamin’s Politics of Remembrance: A Reading of “Über den Begriff der Geschichte”
pp 177-194

9 - The Legacy of Benjamin’s Messianism: Giorgio Agamben and Other Contenders
pp 195-215

10 - Paris on the Amazon? Postcolonial Interrogations of Benjamin’s European Modernism
pp 216-245

11 - Benjamin’s Gender, Sex, and Eros
pp 246-272

12 - Sonic Dreamworlds: Benjamin, Adorno, and the Phantasmagoria of the Opera House
pp 273-294

Select Bibliography and List of Further Reading
pp 295-298

Notes on the Contributors
pp 299-302

Index
pp 303-314

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