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It furthers the University s mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest international levels of excellence. 4 University Printing House, Cambridge cb2 8bs, United Kingdom Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. The argument is not that these works are as beautiful or historically lasting as great works.Walter Benjamin is one of the most influential critical theorists of the early twentieth century.His writings include original theories of the state, fascism and revolution.In the first instalment of a new. Raz-Krakotzkin, A., 2013, вЂOn the Right Side of the Barricades: Walter Benjamin.Walter Benjamin On The Mimetic Faculty Pdf.

Ferris, David S., 1954 II. Benjamin, Walter, Criticism and interpretation. Isbn (hardback) isbn (paperback) 1. (Cambridge Companions to Literature) Includes bibliographical references and index. First published 2004 A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data The Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin / edited by David S. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press.

Walter Benjamin On The Mimetic Faculty Series Walter Benjamin

He is joint editor of the series Walter Benjamin Studies published by Continuum Press. His publications include: Present Hope (1997) Architectural Philosophy (2000) and Philosophy s Literature (2001). He is currently Professor of Critical Theory at Monash University, Australia. Ferris 1 Walter Benjamin and the European avant-garde 18 michael jennings 2 Art forms 35 jan mieszkowski 3 Language and mimesis in Walter Benjamin s work 54 beatrice hanssen 4 Walter Benjamin s concept of cultural history 73 howard caygill 5 Benjamin s modernity 97 andrew benjamin 6 Benjamin and psychoanalysis 115 sarah ley roff 7 Benjamin and the ambiguities of Romanticism 134 rebecca comay v6 Contents 8 Body politics: Benjamin s dialectical materialism between Brecht and the Frankfurt School 152 rainer nГ¤gele 9 Method and time: Benjamin s dialectical images 177 max pensky 10 Benjamin s phantasmagoria: the Arcades Project 199 margaret cohen 11 Acts of self-portraiture: Benjamin s confessional and literary writings 221 gerhard richter Guide to further reading 238 Index 242 vi7 CONTRIBUTORS andrew benjamin has taught in universities in the United Kingdom and the United States.

She is also co-editor of Spectacle of Realism Body, Gender, Genre and The Literary Channel The International Invention of the Novel (2002). She is the author of Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of the Surrealist Revolution (1993) and The Sentimental Education of the Novel (1999). Margaret cohen is Professor of French and Italian at Stanford University. His publications include: Art of Judgment (1989) A Kant Dictionary (1995) Walter Benjamin: The Colour of Experience (1998) and Levinas and the Political (2002).

Beatrice hanssen is Professor of German at the University of Georgia, Athens. He is currently completing a book on Walter Benjamin entitled Torsos of Modernity: Walter Benjamin and the Moment of Criticism. He is the author of Theory and the Evasion of History (1993) and Silent Urns: Romanticism, Hellenism, Modernity (2000) and the editor of Walter Benjamin: Theoretical Questions (1996). David ferris is Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is currently working on a book on Hegel and melancholia and completing a collection of essays on Benjamin.

His publications include: Reading After Freud (1987) Theater, Theory, Speculation: Walter Benjamin and the Scenes of Modernity (1991) Echoes of Translation: Reading Between Texts (1997) and Literarische Vexierbilder. He has published widely on German literature and thought. Rainer nГ¤gele is Professor of German at the Johns Hopkins University.

Gerhard richter is Associate Professor of German and an Affiliate Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His forthcoming book is entitled, The Ends of Solidarity: Studies in Critical Theory. He is also the editor of The Actuality of Adorno: Critical Essays on Adorno and the Postmodern (1995) and Jurgen Habermas: The Postnational Constellation (2000). He is the author of Melancholy Dialectics: Walter Benjamin and the Play of Mourning (1993). Max pensky is Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Binghamton.

Viii9 ABBREVIATIONS AND SHORT TITLES Generally, references to Benjamin s works are given parenthetically in the text (by short title where needed, followed by volume and page reference). She is at work on a book called Hitler Cracking Up. She has recently published articles on psychoanalysis and cultural history, Benjamin s Arcades Project, and Ernst JГјnger. She currently works for the Democratic Party of Oregon. Sarah hey roff has taught as Assistant Professor of German at Princeton University.

Abbreviations BA/B Adorno/Benjamin Briefwechsel Ed. The materials contained in this volume are referred to by page reference except where there is also a convolute numbering system in this case, references are to the page number first, then the convolute number (for example, Arcades, 460 n1a, 8 ). A special note is required for references to the Arcades Project. In the case of Benjamin s On the Concept of History, it should be noted that, although this text is referred to by this title alone, reference has also been made to the earlier translation of this text in Illuminations (where it appeared as Theses on the Philosophy of History ). For the titles of Benjamin s works, this volume has followed those used in the Selected Writings.

Rolf Tiedemann and Herman SchweppenhГ¤user. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, GS Gesammelte Schriften. Christoph GГ¶dde and Henri Lonitz. Adorno and Walter Benjamin, The Complete Correspondence Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, GBr Gesammelte Briefe. University of Chicago Press, CA/B Theodor W.

Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, ) Short titles Arcades The Arcades Project. Michael Jennings et al., 4 vols. New York: HBJ, SW Selected Writings. New York: Schocken, ix10 List of abbreviations and short titles R Reflections.

In SW II, Friendship Gerschom Scholem, Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship. InSW I, Doctrine Doctrine of the Similar.