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Walter Benjamin and the Idea of Natural History
Taschenbuch von Eli Friedlander
Sprache: Englisch

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"In this incisive new work, Eli Friedlander demonstrates that Walter Benjamin's entire corpus, from early to late, comprises a rigorous and sustained philosophical questioning of how human beings belong to nature. Across seemingly heterogeneous writings, Friedlander argues, Benjamin consistently explores what the natural in the human comes to, that is, how nature is transformed, actualized, redeemed, and overcome in human existence. The book progresses gradually from Benjamin's philosophically fundamental writings on language and nature to his Goethean empiricism, from the presentation of ideas to the primal history of the Paris arcades. Friedlander's careful analysis brings out how the idea of natural history inflects Benjamin's conception of the work of art and its critique, his diagnosis of the mythical violence of the legal order, his account of the body and of action, of material culture and technology, as well as his unique vision of historical materialism. Featuring revelatory new readings of Benjamin's major works that differ, sometimes dramatically, from prevailing interpretations, this book reveals the internal coherence and philosophical force of Benjamin's thought"--
"In this incisive new work, Eli Friedlander demonstrates that Walter Benjamin's entire corpus, from early to late, comprises a rigorous and sustained philosophical questioning of how human beings belong to nature. Across seemingly heterogeneous writings, Friedlander argues, Benjamin consistently explores what the natural in the human comes to, that is, how nature is transformed, actualized, redeemed, and overcome in human existence. The book progresses gradually from Benjamin's philosophically fundamental writings on language and nature to his Goethean empiricism, from the presentation of ideas to the primal history of the Paris arcades. Friedlander's careful analysis brings out how the idea of natural history inflects Benjamin's conception of the work of art and its critique, his diagnosis of the mythical violence of the legal order, his account of the body and of action, of material culture and technology, as well as his unique vision of historical materialism. Featuring revelatory new readings of Benjamin's major works that differ, sometimes dramatically, from prevailing interpretations, this book reveals the internal coherence and philosophical force of Benjamin's thought"--
Über den Autor
Eli Friedlander is Laura Schwarz-Kipp Professor of Modern Philosophy at Tel Aviv University. His previous books include Walter Benjamin: A Philosophical Portrait (2015).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Natural in the Human

Part I: Nature in Language

1. God, Nature, and Man in Language

2. Naming Beauty

3. The Life and Afterlife of Words

4. The Life of Forms

Part II: Life and Fate

5. The Guilt and Innocence of Life

6. Fate, Redemption, and Hope in Love

7. Myth, Law, and Life in Common

Part III: Body and Corporeality

8. The Language of the Body and the Body of Language

9. Acting Naturally

Part IV: Primal History

10. "From the Pagan Context of Nature into the Jewish Context of History"

11. Matters of Memory

12. First and Second Nature in Art

Part V: The Image of the Contingent

13. Distorted Life

Notes

Bibliography

Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Philosophie
Jahrhundert: 20. & 21. Jahrhundert
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781503637702
ISBN-10: 1503637700
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Friedlander, Eli
Hersteller: Stanford University Press
Maße: 226 x 151 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Eli Friedlander
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.01.2024
Gewicht: 0,52 kg
Artikel-ID: 126587057
Über den Autor
Eli Friedlander is Laura Schwarz-Kipp Professor of Modern Philosophy at Tel Aviv University. His previous books include Walter Benjamin: A Philosophical Portrait (2015).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Natural in the Human

Part I: Nature in Language

1. God, Nature, and Man in Language

2. Naming Beauty

3. The Life and Afterlife of Words

4. The Life of Forms

Part II: Life and Fate

5. The Guilt and Innocence of Life

6. Fate, Redemption, and Hope in Love

7. Myth, Law, and Life in Common

Part III: Body and Corporeality

8. The Language of the Body and the Body of Language

9. Acting Naturally

Part IV: Primal History

10. "From the Pagan Context of Nature into the Jewish Context of History"

11. Matters of Memory

12. First and Second Nature in Art

Part V: The Image of the Contingent

13. Distorted Life

Notes

Bibliography

Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Philosophie
Jahrhundert: 20. & 21. Jahrhundert
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781503637702
ISBN-10: 1503637700
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Friedlander, Eli
Hersteller: Stanford University Press
Maße: 226 x 151 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Eli Friedlander
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.01.2024
Gewicht: 0,52 kg
Artikel-ID: 126587057
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