Walter Benjamin - Extrapolations - Couverture souple

Patke, Rajeev

 
9783330064041: Walter Benjamin - Extrapolations
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3330064048 ISBN 13 : 9783330064041
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

This book has two aims in mind: to show how some of Benjamin’s European preoccupations of the 1920s and 1930s may have wider relevance to global cultures after his death in 1940; and how the transposition of his ideas to a wider contemporary context can transform our sense of his continued significance to our times. Respect for the rootedness of Benjaminian motifs in European cultures between the two World Wars is balanced in this book with recognition of their potential significance for cultures and societies outside Europe. Such transpositions can only be attempted on the basis of a thorough appreciation of the historicity that ties his works to their times, and with a steady conviction that the resilience evident in the afterlife of his thoughts continues to provide intimations of what might otherwise elude articulation.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book has two aims in mind: to show how some of Benjamin’s European preoccupations of the 1920s and 1930s may have wider relevance to global cultures after his death in 1940; and how the transposition of his ideas to a wider contemporary context can transform our sense of his continued significance to our times. Respect for the rootedness of Benjaminian motifs in European cultures between the two World Wars is balanced in this book with recognition of their potential significance for cultures and societies outside Europe. Such transpositions can only be attempted on the basis of a thorough appreciation of the historicity that ties his works to their times, and with a steady conviction that the resilience evident in the afterlife of his thoughts continues to provide intimations of what might otherwise elude articulation.

Biographie de l'auteur

Rajeev Patke is Director of the Division of Humanities at Yale-NUS College, Singapore. Publications include The Long Poems of Wallace Stevens (1985), Postcolonial Poetry in English (2006), The Concise Routledge History of South-east Asian Writing in English (2010, with Philip Holden); and Modernist Literature and Postcolonial Studies (2013).

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3330064048
ISBN 13 
9783330064041
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
136
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
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