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Informationen zum Autor Richard J. Lane is Professor of English at Malaspina University-College, Canada Klappentext A 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. Zusammenfassung A 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements1. Introduction2. 'Kulturpessimisus' & the new thinkingThe decline of the West; Messianic new thinking3. Metaphysics of youth: Wyneken & 'Rausch'Wyneken; Youth's legacy; 'Rausch' - youth's intoxication; The metaphysics of youth4. History: Surreal messianismEternal return; Profane illumination; Surrealism; Messianic time5. Goethe and the 'Georgekreis'The struggle with an angel; The essay form; Goethe as critical constellation; Death's detour6. Kant's experienceReduction & restriction; The despot of pure reason; The Kantian distance7. Casting the work of artAesthetic judgement; "Space Under My Steel Chair"; The series; Fixed-explosive; Memorial aesthetics8. Narrative order & modern fictionShuffle, or, order and de-formation; Just gaming; Benjamin, Johnson & Wittgenstein; Aphorism9. Conclusion: Exile & the time of crisisReconfiguring repetition; Weapons of mass destruction; disrupting singularity; Postscript on crisis timeGlossary of German words and expressionsBibliography
