Catastrophe and Survival: Walter Benjamin and Psychoanalysis Contributor(s): Stewart, Elizabeth (Author) |
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ISBN: 1441116834 ISBN-13: 9781441116833 Publisher: Continuum OUR PRICE: $54.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - German - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
Dewey: 838.912 |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (1.20 lbs) 240 pages |
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Publisher Description: 'Catastrophe and Survival' addresses a blind spot in Benjamin scholarship: namely the way that Benjamin's thoughts regarding mental space, the mind-body problem, and the individual's experience of the material object world make significant contact with post-Freudian psychoanalytic confrontations with similar issues. |
Contributor Bio(s): Stewart, Elizabeth: - Elizabeth Stewart is Associate Professor of English, Yeshiva University, New York, USA. She teaches courses in European modernism, post-colonial literature, literature and philosophy, and literary and cultural theory. She is the translator and editor of Lacan in the German-Speaking World (SUNY 2004). |