Walter Benjamin's other history : of stones, animals, human beings, and angels /
In this study, Beatrice Hanssen unlocks the philosophical and ethical dimensions of the Trauerspiel study, showing how its thematics persisted well into the later writings of the thirties. For by introducing the materialistic category of natural history in The Origin of German Tragic Drama, Benjamin...
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press,
©1998.
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| Serie: | Weimar and now ;
15. |
| Accesso online: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=32787 |
Sommario:
- pt. I. Toward A New Theory of Natural History.
- Ch. 1. Adorno and Benjamin: Against Historicity.
- Ch. 2. The Epistemo-Critical Prologue Reconsidered.
- Ch. 3. The Turn to Natural History.
- Ch. 4. The Aesthetics of Transience.
- Ch. 5. Natural and Sacred History
- pt. II. Of Stones, Animals, Human Beings, and Angels.
- Ch. 6. Limits of Humanity.
- Ch. 7. Benjamin's Unmensch: The Politics of Real Humanism.
- Ch. 8. The Mythical Origins of the Law.
- Ch. 9. Kafka's Animals.
- Ch. 10. The Response to the Kreatur.