Walter Benjamin and the Demands of History

Walter Benjamin and the Demands of History

EditorMichael P. Steinberg
SeriesCornell Paperbacks
PublisherCornell University Press
Copyright HolderCornell University
ContributorMichael P. Steinberg, Jacques Rancière, Heinz-Dieter Kittsteiner, Harry D. Harootunian, Curtis M. Hinsley, Françoise Meltzer, Max Pensky, Irving Wohlfarth, Michael Löwy, Ackbar Abbas
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
LocationIthaca, New York; London, United Kingdom
Copyright1996
Pages / Font252 pages
Barcode9 780801 482571 90000
Barcode978080148257190000
ISBN978-0-8014-8257-1
Chapters1. Introduction: Benjamin and the Critique of Allegorical Reason - Michael P. Steinberg 2. The Archaeomodern Turn - Jacques Rancière 3. The Allegory of the Philosophy of History in the Nineteenth Century - Heinz-Dieter Kittsteiner 4. The Benjamin Effect: Modernism, Repetition, and the Path to Different Cultural Imaginaries - Harry D. Harootunian 5. The Collector as Allegorist: Goods, Gods, and the Objects of History - Michael P. Steinberg 6. Strolling through the Colonies - Curtis M. Hinsley 7. Acedia and Melancholia - Françoise Meltzer 8. Tactics of Remembrance: Proust, Surrealism, and the Origin of the "Passagenwerk" - Max Pensky 9. Smashing the Kaleidoscope: Walter Benjamin's Critique of Cultural History - Irving Wohlfarth 10. "Against the Grain": The Dialectical Conception of Culture in Walter Benjamin's Theses of 1940 - Michael Löwy 11. Hyphenation: The Spatial Dimensions of Hong Kong Culture - Ackbar Abbas Contributors Index
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