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Philosophy and melancholy : Benjamin's early reflections on theater and language
- Title
- Philosophy and melancholy : Benjamin's early reflections on theater and language / Ilit Ferber.
- Author
- Ferber, Ilit.
- Publication
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2013]
- ©2013
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Details
- Description
- x, 241 pages; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Cultural memory in the present
- Uniform Title
- Cultural memory in the present.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-231) and index.
- Contents
- Benjamin and Freud : at the juncture of melancholy loss -- Commitment and loyalty to the lost object -- The intentionless nature of truth -- Work and play : a view of melancholic productivity -- The Trauerspiel : reflections on the baroque -- Expressions of pain in the Trauerspiel -- The bombastic nature of expression in the Trauerspiel -- Pain and spectacle : the figure of the martyr -- Death and meaning : the figure of the ghost -- Language and loss : Benjamin's concept of expression -- Creation and loss : "on language as such" -- Lament : language and sadness -- The ghosts of language : "the task of the translator" -- The "epistemo-critical prologue" -- The "monad" : Leibniz and Benjamin -- The monads' configuration as a hierarchy -- A pre-established harmony : Benjamin's conception of truth as harmony -- Stimmung : philosophy and mood.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-4561
- ISBN
- 9780804785198 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0804785198 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780804785204 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0804785201 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780804786645 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- 080478664X (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2012041616
- OCLC
- 818953181
- Author
- Ferber, Ilit.
- Title
- Philosophy and melancholy : Benjamin's early reflections on theater and language / Ilit Ferber.
- Publisher
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2013]
- Copyright Date
- ©2013
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Cultural memory in the presentCultural memory in the present.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-231) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-4561