Philosophy and melancholy : Benjamin's early reflections on theater and language
Ilit Ferber
Bok · Engelsk · 2013
| Omfang | x, 241 sider
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| Opplysninger | Benjamin and Freud : at the juncture of melancholy loss -- Commitment and loyalty to the lost object -- The intentionless nature of truth -- Work and play : a view of melancholic productivity -- The Trauerspiel : reflections on the baroque -- Expressions of pain in the Trauerspiel -- The bombastic nature of expression in the Trauerspiel -- Pain and spectacle : the figure of the martyr -- Death and meaning : the figure of the ghost -- Language and loss : Benjamin's concept of expression -- Creation and loss : "on language as such" -- Lament : language and sadness -- The ghosts of language : "the task of the translator" -- The "epistemo-critical prologue" -- The "monad" : Leibniz and Benjamin -- The monads' configuration as a hierarchy -- A pre-established harmony : Benjamin's conception of truth as harmony -- Stimmung : philosophy and mood.
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| ISBN | 9780804785198. - 9780804785204
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