Walter Benjamin and history [electronic resource] / edited by Andrew Benjamin. - London ; New York : Continuum, c2005. - 260 p. - Walter Benjamin studies series . - Walter Benjamin studies series. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The supposition of the aura: the now, the then, and modernity / The shortness of history, or photography In Nuce: Benjamin's attenuation of the negative / 'Now': Walter Benjamin on historical time / Down the K. hole: Walter Benjamin's destructive land-surveying of history / The sickness of tradition: between melancholia and fetishism / Trembling contours: Kierkegaard-Benjamin-Brecht / The subject of history: the temporality of parataxis in Benjamin's historiography / Tradition as injunction: Benjamin and the critique of historicisms / Boredom and distraction: the moods of modernity / Walter Benjamin's interior history / What is the matter with architectural history? / Messianic epistemology: Thesis XV / Non-messianic political theology in Benjamin's 'On the concept of history' / Andrew Benjamin -- Georges Didi-Huberman -- David Ferris -- Werner Hamacher -- Stephanie Polsky -- Rebecca Comay -- Rainer Nagele -- Dimitris Vardoulakis -- Philippe Simay -- Andrew Benjamin -- Charles Rice -- Gevork Hartoonian -- Robert Gibbs -- Howard Caygill. Introduction /


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Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.


History--Philosophy.


Electronic books.

D16.8 / .W29 2005

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