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Walter Benjamin and History
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The first book to examine in detail Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History Benjamin's collection of fragments, Theses on the Philosophy of History, play a determining role in how Benjamin's thought is understood, as well as in the debate about the interplay between politics, history and time. Walter Benjamin and History is the first volume to give access to the themes and problems raised by the Theses, providing valuable exegetical and historical work on the text. The essays collected here are all the work of noted Benjamin scholars, and pursue the themes central to the Theses.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Supposition of the Aura: The Now, the Then, and Modernity
- 2 The Shortness of History, or Photography In Nuce: Benjaminâs Attenuation of the Negative
- 3 âNowâ: Walter Benjamin on Historical Time
- 4 Down the K. Hole: Walter Benjaminâs Destructive Land-surveying of History
- 5 The Sickness of Tradition: Between Melancholia and Fetishism
- 6 Trembling Contours: KierkegaardâBenjaminâBrecht
- 7 The Subject of History: The Temporality of Parataxis in Benjaminâs Historiography
- 8 Tradition as Injunction: Benjamin and the Critique of Historicisms
- 9 Boredom and Distraction: The Moods of Modernity
- 10 Walter Benjaminâs Interior History
- 11 What is the Matter with Architectural History?
- 12 Messianic Epistemology: Thesis XV
- 13 Non-messianic Political Theology in Benjaminâs âOn the Concept of Historyâ
- Notes
- Contributors
- Index