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Showing 1 to 20 of 107 for “"Walter Benjamin"”.
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The literary criticism of Walter Benjamin
… than fall into the hands of the <em>Gestapo</em> Walter Benjamin committed suicide on September 27, 1940. Yet it can be argued that it is still too early to write a truly comprehensive study of his work. He belongs among those whom Nietzsche called “posthumously born.”</p> <p>At the time of his …
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Style and mimesis in the name of Walter Benjamin
This study locates the consistency of Benjamin’s philosophy in its deployment of style. Since the style of his philosophy corresponds to its object, it always manifests differently. But the principle of its presentation remains the same: it is deployed to induce in the reader an act of mimetic …
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Walter Benjamin and Kitsch Politics in the Phantasmagorical Age
… world. My methodological approach is built on Benjamin’s notion of historical materialism. Thus, I engage with the historical object(s) (e.g., arcades, fashion, technological reproductions etc.) not as “object(s) of experience” but as a “participant(s) in historical experience” (Caygill 2004, …
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A questão da escrita filosófica na obra de Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin has found that the issue of presentation (Darstellung) has historically proven to be a problem immanent to philosophical doing. The present work aims to understand how he confronted this problem in the scope of his philosophical writing. The thesis deals with this theme through …
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Per la critica della concettualità politica moderna. Walter Benjamin e il monopolio della Gewalt.
Se il compito che si prefiggeva Benjamin in Per la critica della violenza era l’esposizione dei rapporti che intercorrono tra violenza, diritto e giustizia, situare la relazione che lega questi tre concetti in un contesto storico-politico è lo scopo del presente lavoro. Il contesto …
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Der Begriff der Aura und einer Kunst ohne Aura im Werk von Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin formulated the concept of the aura in 1930 while experimenting with hashish. He describes an aura as the essence of an object that is only present in the act of perception. The aura changes from one occurrence of its perception to another. After the hashish trance, the perceiver can …
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Tiempo kairológico y tradición oculta: la recepción de Walter Benjamin por parte de Hannah Arendt
Fil: Goyenechea de Benvenuto, Elisa. Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales; Argentina
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Religions of Doubt: Religion, Critique, and Modernity in Jalal Al-e Ahmad and Walter Benjamin
… Critique, and Modernity in Jalal Al-e Ahmad and Walter Benjamin is a work of comparative philosophy addressing selected works of the Iranian novelist and political thinker Jalal Al-e Ahmad and the German-Jewish critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin. I demonstrate that the perceived failure of …
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Sensing-through Architectural Scenographies: Tactility, Language and Natural History in the Work of Walter Benjamin
… truth and language and political aesthetics in Walter Benjamin’s epistemology of images, this thesis takes as its touch-stone Benjamin’s somewhat overlooked meditations on the sensorial faculty of tactility (“das Taktische”). According to the first version of the “Work of Art” essay, along with …
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Manfredo Tafuri's notion of history and its methodological sources : from Walter Benjamin to Roland Barthes
… however, it outlines the profound impact of Walter Benjamin's notion of history, particularly as exposed in "The Theses on the Philosophy of History", on Tafuri. In the last chapter, are drawn some partial conclusions on the epistemological implications of Tafuri's theory.
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Les sursauts du temps : Aby Warburg, Walter Benjamin et Georges Didi-Huberman autour du concept d’histoire
… participent abondamment Aby Warburg et Walter Benjamin. En s’intéressant à leurs travaux respectifs, Didi-Huberman montre en quoi, selon lui, il est inadéquat (ou en tout cas restrictif) d’utiliser, aujourd’hui, en regard des images, des schémas temporels évolutifs, linéaires et …
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El montaje en Aby Warburg Y Walter Benjamin. Un método alternativo para la representación de la violencia
… del proceder metodológico de Aby Warburg y Walter Benjamin. Las correspondencias que se han trazado entre las prácticas históricas de ambos autores, se aprovecharán para dar cuenta de un método que comparten en cuanto al modo especial de entender las relaciones entre los elementos del …
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…of delay, hesitation and detour: Resisting the constitution of knowledge: Walter Benjamin, re-search and contemporary art
… Santander,” an autobiographical fragment Walter Benjamin wrote in 1933 while in exile on Ibiza. The first version reads: “…I came into the world under the sign of Saturn, the star of hesitation and delay …” He later revised the latter clause to: “the star of the slowest revolution, the …
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The idea of mimesis: Semblance, play, and critique in the works of Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno
… discussed just how much it is the case that, for Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno, the concepts and language it employs, as well as the aesthetic comportment it would champion for the sake of generating a critical distance from these illusions, require an understanding of the mimetic faculty. …
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Tactility and modernity: the sense of touch in D. H. Lawrence, Alfred Stieglitz, Walter Benjamin, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty
… and an artistic group, namely, D. H. Lawrence, Walter Benjamin, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and an artistic circle centering around Alfred Stieglitz. In the tradition of Western culture, touch is often regarded as the “lowest” sense while vision is privileged as the “intellectual sense.” Through a …
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Walter Benjamins Konzept des Eingedenkens: Über Genese, Stellung und Bedeutung eines ungebräuchlichen Begriffs in Benjamins Schriften
… circa il concetto di Eingedenken" che Walter Benjamin utilizza nei suoi scritti dal 1927 fino alla morte (nel 1940)."
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Film, Video, and Digitality: An Analysis of Cultural Form in Time-based Media
… the debates on form and meaning associated with Walter Benjamin.
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Collaborations and Resistances Between Writing and Photography in Late Twentieth-Century France
Roland Barthes, Geoffrey Batchen, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Stuart Hall, W. J. T. Mitchell, and Susan Sontag are among the critics who provide useful concepts and theories as a foundation from which to explore encounters between texts and photographs.
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