| Walter Benjamin and the Demands of History Contributor(s): Steinberg, Michael P. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0801482577 ISBN-13: 9780801482571 Publisher: Cornell University Press OUR PRICE: $38.56 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1996 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Historiography - Literary Criticism | European - German - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 838.912 |
| LCCN: 96-3464 |
| Lexile Measure: 1480 |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 6.04" W x 9.02" (0.84 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is the first to consider the presence of history and the question of historical practice in Walter Benjamin's work. Benjamin, the critic and philosopher of history, was also the practitioner, the authors contend, and it is in the practice of historical writing that the materialist aspect of his thought is most evident. Some of the essays analyze Benjamin's writings in cultural history and the philosophy of history. Others connect his historical and theoretical practices to issues in contemporary feminism and post-colonial studies, and to cultural contexts including the United States, Japan, and Hong Kong. In different ways, the authors all find in Benjamin's specific notion of historical materialism a dialectic between textual and cultural analysis which can reinvigorate the relation between literary and historical studies. |
Contributor Bio(s): Steinberg, Michael P.: - Michael P. Steinberg is Director of the Cogut Center for the Humanities and Professor of History and Music at Brown University. He is the author of Austria as Theater and Ideology: The Meaning of the Salzburg Festival; Walter Benjamin and the Demands of History (both from Cornell); and Listening to Reason: Culture, Subjectivity, and Nineteenth-Century Music. |