Walter Benjamin and Art (Walter Benjamin Studies)

Walter Benjamin and Art (Walter Benjamin Studies)

Yazar : Andrew Benjamin
Yayınevi : Continuum
ISBN : 9780826467300
Baskı yılı : 2011
Sayfa sayısı : 308
Ağırlık : 0.49 kg
Stok durumu : Tükendi   
Walter Benjamins most famous and influential essay remains The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Walter Benjamin and the Work of Art is the first book to provide a broad and dedicated analysis of this canonical work and its effect upon core contemporary concerns in the visual arts, aesthetics and the history of philosophy. The book is structured around three distinct areas: the extension of Benjamins work; the question of historical connection; the importance of the essay in the development of criticism of both the visual arts and literature. Contributors to the volume include major Benjamin commentators, whose work has very much defined the reception of the essay, and leading philosophers, historians and aesthetician, whose approaches open up new areas of interest and relevance.
Introduction by Andrew Benjamin 1
1 Reception in distraction by Howard Eiland 3
2 The timing of elective affinity : Walter Benjamins strong aesthetics by Joanna Hodge 14
3 Materialist mutations of the Bilderverbot by Rebecca Comay 32
4 Is there an answer to the aestheticizing of the political? by Peter Fenves 60
5 Benjamin or Heidegger : aesthetics and politics in an age of technology by Beatrice Hanssen 73
6 The work of art in the age of ontological speculation : Walter Benjamin revisited by Arne Melberg 93
7 The mimetic bond : Benjamin and the question of technology by Fabrizio Desideri 108
8 Aura, still by Robert Kaufman 121
9 Walter Benjamin and the tectonic unconscious by Detlef Mertins 148
10 Aura, face, photography : re-reading Benjamin today by Diarmuid Costello 164
11 Benjamin on art and reproducibility : the case of music by Rajeev S. Patke 185
12 The work of art in the age of its electronic mutability by Krzysztof Ziarek 209
13 Rehearsing revolution and life : the embodiment of Benjamins artwork essay at the end of the age of mechanical reproduction by Saul Ostrow 226