Gerhard Richter
Benjamin's Ghosts
- ISBN 13:
- 9780804741262
- author:
- Gerhard Richter
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2002
- Pages:
- 384
- Dimensions:
- 152mm X 229mm
- Genre:
- Literature
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Benjamin's Ghosts Interventions in Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory by Gerhard Richter explores the implications of Walter Benjamin's work for today's critical concerns. This collection of essays examines the notion of the ghostly in Benjamin's writings, revealing truths that point toward new forms of responsibility while withdrawing from straightforward meaning. Through close textual readings and thoughtful contextualizations, internationally known scholars engage a wide range of issues related to Benjamin's ideas on messianism, aura, reproducibility, semblance, and melancholy. The essays also explore Benjamin's relation to Freud, his innovative rethinking of history, virtuality, and translation, and his reflections on tragedy and prophecy. This book offers a nuanced understanding of the ghostly space that Benjamin's texts delimit but never fully inhabit, seeking to do justice to the ghosts of Benjamin that are already present in our critical discourse.
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