Goebel A Companion to the Works of Walter Benjamin

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-57113-727-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 44, 328 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

An advanced introduction to Benjamin's work and its actualization for our own times.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goebel, Rolf J.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Daub, Adrian

Witte, Bernd

Chisholm, Dianne

Finkelde, Dominik

Jarosinski, Eric

Solibakke, Karl Ivan

Koepnick, Lutz

de Wilde, Marc

Liska, Vivian

Bolle, Willi

Bock, Wolfgang

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Benjamin's Criticism of Language and Literature - Wolfgang Bock
The Presence of the Baroque: Benjamin's Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels in Contemporary Contexts - Dominik Finkelde
Lost Orders of the Day: Benjamin's Einbahnstraße - Wolfgang Bock
Literature as the Medium of Collective Memory: Reading Benjamin's Einbahnstraße, "Der Erzähler," and "Das Paris des Second Empire bei Baudelaire" - Bernd Witte
Benjamin in the Age of New Media - Lutz Koepnick
One Little Rule: On Benjamin, Autobiography, and Never Using the Word "I" - Eric Jarosinski
The Passagen-Werk Revisited: The Dialectics of Fragmentation and Reconfiguration in Urban Modernity - Karl Ivan Solibakke
Benjamin's Politics of Remembrance: A Reading of the Theses Contained in "Über den Begriff der Geschichte" - Marc de Wilde
The Legacy of Benjamin's Messianism: Giorgio Agamben and other Contenders - Vivian Liska
Paris on the Amazon?: Postcolonial Interrogations of Benjamin's European Modernism - Willi Bolle
Benjamin's Gender, Sex, and Eros - Dianne Chisholm
Sonic Dreamworlds: Benjamin, Adorno, and the Phantasmagoria of the Opera House - Adrian Daub

Über Autor(innen)

Goebel Rolf J.:
ROLF J. GOEBEL is Distinguished Professor of German, Emeritus, at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.Solibakke Karl Ivan:
Karl Ivan Solibakke is Associate Professor of German and Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences for Budget and Long-Range Planning at Syracuse University.