Walter Benjamin and Art
About this book
Walter Benjamin's most famous and influential essay remains The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Walter Benjamin and the Work of Art is the first book to provide a broad and dedicated analysis of this canonical work and its effect upon core contemporary concerns in the visual arts, aesthetics and the history of philosophy. The book is structured around three distinct areas: the extension of Benjamin's work; the question of historical connection; the importance of the essay in the development of criticism of both the visual arts and literature. Contributors to the volume include major Benjamin commentators, whose work has very much defined the reception of the essay, and leading philosophers, historians and aesthetician, whose approaches open up new areas of interest and relevance.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Reception in Distraction
- 2 The Timing of Elective Affinity: Walter Benjamin's Strong Aesthetics
- 3 Materialist Mutations of the Bilderverbot
- 4 Is There an Answer to the Aestheticizing of the Political?
- 5 Benjamin or Heidegger: Aesthetics and Politics in an Age of Technology
- 6 The Work of Art in the Age of Ontological Speculation: Walter Benjamin Revisited
- 7 The Mimetic Bond: Benjamin and the Question of Technology
- 8 Aura, Still
- 9 Walter Benjamin and the Tectonic Unconscious
- 10 Aura, Face, Photography: Re-reading Benjamin Today
- 11 Benjamin on Art and Reproducibility: The Case of Music
- 12 The Work of Art in the Age of its Electronic Mutability
- 13 Rehearsing Revolution and Life: The Embodiment of Benjamin's Artwork Essay at the End of the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
- Notes
- Contributors
- Index