{"product_id":"reading-walter-benjamin-9780719064371","title":"Reading Walter Benjamin","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA new reading of Walter Benjamin that places his work in historical context and explores the theoretical links with German and Jewish philosophy and theology.  The book also provides unique readings of Benjamin and the British artist Rachel Whiteread and British experimental author B.S. Johnson. -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e2. 'Kulturpessimisus' \u0026amp; the new thinking\u003cbr\u003eThe decline of the West; Messianic new thinking\u003cbr\u003e3. Metaphysics of youth: Wyneken \u0026amp; 'Rausch'\u003cbr\u003eWyneken; Youth's legacy; 'Rausch' - youth's intoxication; The metaphysics of youth\u003cbr\u003e4. History: Surreal messianism\u003cbr\u003eEternal return; Profane illumination; Surrealism; Messianic time\u003cbr\u003e5. Goethe and the 'Georgekreis'\u003cbr\u003eThe struggle with an angel; The essay form; Goethe as critical constellation; Death's detour\u003cbr\u003e6. Kant's experience\u003cbr\u003eReduction \u0026amp; restriction; The despot of pure reason; The Kantian distance\u003cbr\u003e7.  Casting the work of art\u003cbr\u003eAesthetic judgement; \"Space Under My Steel Chair\"; The series; Fixed-explosive; Memorial aesthetics\u003cbr\u003e8. Narrative order \u0026amp; modern fiction\u003cbr\u003eShuffle, or, order and de-formation; Just gaming; Benjamin, Johnson \u0026amp; Wittgenstein; Aphorism\u003cbr\u003e9. Conclusion: Exile \u0026amp; the time of crisis\u003cbr\u003eReconfiguring repetition; Weapons of mass destruction; disrupting singularity; Postscript on crisis time\u003cbr\u003eGlossary of German words and expressions\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037295313239,"sku":"9780719064371","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780719064371.jpg?v=1750935205","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reading-walter-benjamin-9780719064371","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}