The Late Walter Benjamin

Zusatztext [A] clever, idiosyncratic novella … The great value of Schad’s narrative is its attempt to uncover the sort of ‘revolutionary energy’ in the story of a post-war North-London council estate that, for all its difficulties, managed somewhat heroically to create an environment defined above all by optimism, vitality, and buried glimpses of utopia. Informationen zum Autor John Schad is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Lancaster, UK Vorwort This fully-annotated documentary novel explores the life and thought of Walter Benjamin, imaginatively examining its implications in the political context of a post-War London estate. Zusammenfassung Explores the life and thought of Walter Benjamin, imaginatively examining its implications in the political context of a post-War London estate. This title explores the emergence of Benjamin's thinking from a politicised Jewish theology forced to confront the rise of Nazism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgements \ List of Illustrations \ A Note Left Behind \ 1. The Gate 2. The House \ 3. Two Films Are Briefly Projected \ 4. The Front Room \ 5.Still the Front Room \ 6. The Garden in the Evening \ 7. Still the Garden inthe Evening \ 8. The Garden, Now Frozen, At Night \ 9. Still the Frosted GardenAt Night \ 10. The Coronation and the Beautiful Pouring Rain \ 11. Still theCoronation and the Beautiful Pouring Rain \ 12. Removal \ 13. The Threshold ofthe Hotel \ Post-face \ Notes \ Index

Product details

• Authors: John Schad
• Assisted by: Mark Knight (Editor), Emma Mason (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.05.2012
• EAN: 9781441177681
• ISBN: 978-1-4411-7768-1
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature; New Directions in Religion & L; New Directions in Religion and Literature; New Directions in Religion and; New Directions in Religion & L
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries