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Demonstrates that Walter Benjamin articulates his conception of history through the language of photography. Focusing on Benjamin's discussions of the flashes and images of history, this title argues that the questions raised by this link between photography and history touch on issues that belong to the entire trajectory of his writings.

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"Cadava presents a series of sensitive meditations on Benjamin's work, in which, like Benjamin himself, he explores the mass image and its role in the making of popular memory."--The Times Literary Supplement

Table of Contents
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsPreface: PhotagogosHistory3Heliotropism5Origins5Mortification7Ghosts11Mimesis13Translations15Inscriptions18Lightning21Stars26Eternal Return31Reproducibility42Politics44Danger47Caesura59Traces64Nightdreams66Twilight71Awakening81Language84Matter87Reflections92Psyches97Shocks102Similarity106Petrification115Death128Epitaphs128Notes133Bibliography157Index169

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: 23/08/1998
      ISBN13: 9780691002682, 978-0691002682
      ISBN10: 0691002681
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Demonstrates that Walter Benjamin articulates his conception of history through the language of photography. Focusing on Benjamin's discussions of the flashes and images of history, this title argues that the questions raised by this link between photography and history touch on issues that belong to the entire trajectory of his writings.

      Trade Review
      "Cadava presents a series of sensitive meditations on Benjamin's work, in which, like Benjamin himself, he explores the mass image and its role in the making of popular memory."--The Times Literary Supplement

      Table of Contents
      List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsPreface: PhotagogosHistory3Heliotropism5Origins5Mortification7Ghosts11Mimesis13Translations15Inscriptions18Lightning21Stars26Eternal Return31Reproducibility42Politics44Danger47Caesura59Traces64Nightdreams66Twilight71Awakening81Language84Matter87Reflections92Psyches97Shocks102Similarity106Petrification115Death128Epitaphs128Notes133Bibliography157Index169

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