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Walter Benjamin and the Antinomies of Tradition
John McCole
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Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 158 x 235 x 19. Weight in Grams: 504.
Few modern thinkers have been as convinced of the necessity of recovering the past in order to redeem the present as Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). Benjamin at once mourned and celebrated what he took to be an inevitable liquidation of traditional culture, and his determination to think both of these attitudes through to their conclusions lends his work its peculiar honesty, along with its paradoxical, antinomial coherence. In a landmark interpretation of the whole of Benjamin's career, John McCole demonstrates a way of understanding Benjamin that both contextualizes and addresses the complexities and ambiguities of his texts. Working ... Read more
Few modern thinkers have been as convinced of the necessity of recovering the past in order to redeem the present as Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). Benjamin at once mourned and celebrated what he took to be an inevitable liquidation of traditional culture, and his determination to think both of these attitudes through to their conclusions lends his work its peculiar honesty, along with its paradoxical, antinomial coherence. In a landmark interpretation of the whole of Benjamin's career, John McCole demonstrates a way of understanding Benjamin that both contextualizes and addresses the complexities and ambiguities of his texts. Working ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801497117
SKU
V9780801497117
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About John McCole
John McCole is Associate Professor of History and Social Studies at Harvard University.
Reviews for Walter Benjamin and the Antinomies of Tradition
This sophisticated yet reader-friendly study represents a significant advance in American criticism on Walter Benjamin.... I endorse Irving Wohlfarth's statement that this is 'the best book-length study of Benjamin yet to have appeared in English' and enthusiastically recommend it to novice and devotee alike.
Philosophy and Literature
Philosophy and Literature