Benjamin's passages : dreaming, awakening /
In transposing the Freudian dream work from the individual subject to the collective, Walter Benjamin projected a 'macroscosmic journey' of the individual sleeper to 'the dreaming collective, which, through the arcades, communes with its own insides'. This book examines the figur...
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| Formaat: | Licensed eBooks |
| Taal: | Engels |
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New York :
Fordham University Press
2015.
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| Editie: | First edition. |
| Online toegang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1287fvp |
Inhoudsopgave:
- Introduction
- Contexts of the aesthetic
- Epigones in the house of language: Benjamin and Kraus
- Benjamin on atget: empty streets and the fading of aura
- Entering the passagen
- Citation as incitation: the political agenda of the passagenarbeit
- Messianism, "weak" and otherwise
- Forgetting, dreaming, awakening.