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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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gelley, Alexander (Autor)
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:inglês
Publicado em: New York : Fordham University Press 2015.
Edição:First edition.
Acesso em linha:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1287fvp
Sumário:
  • 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.