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Benjamin's Ghosts: Interventions in Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory

by Gerhard Richter

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2.6 cm

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This book explores the implications for today's critical concerns of the work of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). Although his writings are considered to be among the most powerful and suggestive theoretical enterprises of the twentieth century, his ideas are strangely resistant to cooptation by the established doctrines of various critical programs. The innovative essays gathered here engage this resistance by examining the notion of the ghostly in Benjamin's work. The contributors show that the urgent and haunting truths Benjamin offers point toward new forms of responsibility, even as they withdraw from straightforward meaning and transparent forms of expression. These truths reside in a figurative elsewhere, a ghostly space that his texts delimit but never fully inhabit, and these essays seek to do justice to the ghosts of Benjamin that are already on board with us. Through close textual readings and thoughtful contextualizations, internationally known Benjamin scholars engage a wide range of issues, including: the status of the image in Benjamin's literary reflections and in his meditations on cinema and visual culture; abiding Benjaminian notions of messianism, aura, reproducibility, semblance, and melancholy; Benjamin's relation to Freud; his innovative rethinking of history, virtuality, and translation; and his reflections on tragedy and prophecy, the geometrical dimensions of writing, and the relation between eros and language. The contributors are Norbert Bolz, Fritz Breithaupt, Stanley Corngold, Peter Fenves, Eva Geulen, Miriam Hansen, Beatrice Hanssen, Lutz Koepnick, Tom McCall, Kevin McLaughlin, Bettine Menke, Rainer N gele, Gerhard Richter, Laurence Rickels, and Sigrid Weigel.
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  • Author

    Gerhard Richter

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Stanford University Press

  • Published

    April 2002

  • Weight

    700g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9780804741255

  • ISBN-10

    0804741255

  • Eden Code

    4732421

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