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Although Walter Benjamin's writings are considered to be among the most powerful theoretical enterprises of the twentieth century, his ideas are resistant to cooptation by the doctrines of various critical programs. These essays engage this resistance by examining the ghostly in Benjamin's work. The contributors show that the haunting truths Benjamin offers point towards new forms of responsibility. These truths reside in a figurative elsewhere, a ghostly space that his texts delimit but never fully inhabit, and these essays seek to do justice to the ghosts of Benjamin. Issues explored include: the status of the image in Benjamin's literary reflections and in his meditations on cinema and visual culture; abiding Benjaminian notions of messianism, aura, reproducibility, semblance, and melancholy; Benjamin's relation to Freud; his innovative rethinking of history, virtuality, and translation; and his reflections on tragedy and prophecy, the geometrical dimensions of writing, and the relation between eros and language.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy History of Western philosophy

• Full title: Benjamin's Ghosts
• Subtitle: Interventions in Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory
• Author: Gerhard Richter
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 384
• EAN: 9780804741255
• ISBN: 0804741255
• ID: 04717261
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 698 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. April 2002

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