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Benjamin's Ghosts: Interventions in Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory

Benjamin's Ghosts: Interventions in Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory


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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.

About the Author :
Gerhard Richter is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography.

Review :
"An ensemble of American and European scholars has produced a collective endeavor of the highest scholarly, conceptual, and essayistic quality throughout. There is an enormous storehouse of creativity in this volume that establishes definitively that contemporary academic study has risen to the considerable challenge furnished by the diverse writings of Walter Benjamin." - Henry Sussman, SUNY, Buffalo


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  • ISBN-13: 9780804741255
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Stanford University Press
  • Edition: New edition
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 384
  • Sub Title: Interventions in Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory
  • ISBN-10: 0804741255
  • Publisher Date: 18 Apr 2002
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 384
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 152 mm


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