Walter Benjamin's Antifascist Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Walter Benjamin's Antifascist Education write by Tyson E. Lewis. This book was released on 2020-02-01. Walter Benjamin's Antifascist Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A comprehensive study of education in the writings of Walter Benjamin. Walter Benjamin’s Antifascist Education is the first comprehensive analysis of educational themes across the entirety of the critical theorist’s diverse writings. Starting with Benjamin’s early reflections on teaching and learning, Tyson E. Lewis argues that the aesthetic and cultural forms to which Benjamin so often turned—namely, radio broadcasts, children’s theatrical productions, collections, cityscapes, public cinemas, and word games—swell with educational potentialities. What emerges from Lewis’s reading is a constellational curriculum composed of minor practices such as poor teaching, absentminded learning, and nondurational studying. This curriculum carries political significance, offering an antidote to past and present forms of fascist manipulation, hardness, and coldness. Walter Benjamin’s Antifascist Education is a testimony to Benjamin’s belief that “everyone is an educator and everyone needs to be educated and everything is education.” “Taking up the multifaceted Benjaminian conception of educational life—a life of studious straying and self-reflection at once critical and mimetic—and following its untoward trajectory in object areas as diverse as slapstick film, riddles, cityscapes, and children’s theater, this subtle, imaginative, and comprehensive analysis speaks directly to the moral and spiritual crisis of the present.” — Howard Eiland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Walter Benjamin's Antifascist Education: from Riddles to Radio
Walter Benjamin's Antifascist Education: from Riddles to Radio - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Walter Benjamin's Antifascist Education: from Riddles to Radio write by Caroline Adler. This book was released on 2023. Walter Benjamin's Antifascist Education: from Riddles to Radio available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Walter Benjamin and the Actuality of Critique
Walter Benjamin and the Actuality of Critique - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Walter Benjamin and the Actuality of Critique write by Carlo Salzani. This book was released on 2021-07-28. Walter Benjamin and the Actuality of Critique available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The striking actuality of Walter Benjamin’s work does not rest on a supposed “usefulness” of his philosophy for current concerns, but rather on the high “legibility” to which his oeuvre has come in the present. Indeed, this legibility is a function of critique, which unearths the truth-content of a work in a constellation of reading with the present, and assures thereby that the work lives on. Following this methodological tenet, this book approaches Benjamin’s work with two foci: the actuality of his critique of violence, a central and unavoidable topic in the contemporary political-philosophical debate, and the actuality of his critique of experience, which perhaps is not as conspicuous as that of his critique of violence but constitutes, nonetheless, the bedrock upon which his whole philosophy rests.
Walter Benjamin's Other History
Walter Benjamin's Other History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Walter Benjamin's Other History write by Beatrice Hanssen. This book was released on 2000-12-04. Walter Benjamin's Other History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this study, Beatrice Hanssen unlocks the philosophical and ethical dimensions of the Trauerspiel study, showing how its thematics persisted well into the later writings of the thirties. For by introducing the materialistic category of natural history in The Origin of German Tragic Drama, Benjamin not only criticized idealistic conceptions of history writing but also expressed an ethico-theological call for another kind of history, one no longer anthropocentric in nature. This profound critique of historical thinking, Hanssen shows, went hand in hand with a radical de-limitation of the human subject, informed by his interest in questions about ethics, the law, and justice. Through an analysis of the seemingly innocuous figures of stones, animals, and angels that are scattered throughout his writings, Hanssen reconstructs the often neglected ethical dimension of his historical thought. In the course of doing so, she not only places Benjamin's work in the context of contemporaries such as Adorno, Cohen, Lukacs, Kafka, Kraus, and Heidegger but also demonstrates the persistence of Benjaminian themes in contemporary philosophy and critical theory.
Walter Benjamin: Appropriations
Walter Benjamin: Appropriations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Walter Benjamin: Appropriations write by Peter Osborne. This book was released on 2005. Walter Benjamin: Appropriations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. No other single author has so commanding a critical presence across so many disciplines within the arts and humanities, in so many national contexts, as Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). The belated reception of his work as a literary critic (dating from the late 1950s) has been followed by a rapid series of critical receptions in different contexts: Frankfurt Critical Theory and Marxism, Judaism, Film Theory, Post-structuralism, Philosophical Romanticism, and Cultural Studies.This collection brings together a selection of the most critically important items in the literature, across the full range of Benjamin's cultural-theoretical interests, from all periods of the reception of his writings, but focusing upon the most recent, to produce a comprehensive overview of the best critical literature.
