Benjamin, Adorno, and the Experience of Literature

Informationen zum Autor Corey McCall is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Elmira College! USANathan Ross is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oklahoma City University! USA Zusammenfassung This book examines Benjamin’s and Adorno’s essays and correspondence on literature. Taken together, the essays present the view that these two monumental figures of 20th-century philosophy were not simply philosophers who wrote about literature, but that they developed their philosophies in and through their encounters with literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Corey McCall and Nathan Ross Part I. Benjamin and Adorno: Literary Themes and Philosophical Debates 1. Against the Reification of History: Benjamin and Adorno on Baudelaire Corey McCall 2. Theatrum Philosophicum : Thinking Literature and Politics with Walter Benjamin Oscar Guardiola-Rivera 3. Adorno and Beckett: Aesthetic Mimesis and The Language of ‘The New’ Marcia Morgan 4. Abysmal Humanity: Anthropological Materialism in Georg Büchner and Walter Benjamin Cat Moir Part II. Kafka: ‘Fairy Tales for Dialecticians’ 5. Breaking the Mythic Organization of Life: On Literary Form and Political Tendency in Benjamin’s Reading of Kafka Nathan Ross 6. The Virtue or Power of the Useless: Benjamin and Adorno on Kafka Idit Dobbs-Weinstein 7. Discovering the Truth of Sancho Panza: The Meaning of Comedy in Adorno’s and Benjamin’s Differing Readings of Don Quixote Meanchem Feuer Part III. Proust: Recovering Experience 8. The Proustian Roots of Adorno’s Idea of Social Criticism Roger Foster 9. Seeing-In, Seeing-Through: Adorno and the Platonism of Proust Owen Hulatt Part IV: From Hölderlin to Walser: Poetic Afterlives 10. Hölderlin’s Aesthetic Critique of Modernity Michael J. Thompson 11. Benjamin on Hölderlin’s Poetic Cosmos Hyun Höchsmann 12. Wo bist Du Nachdenkliches! Poetic Determinability in Hölderlin and Walser Stéphane Symons 13. Robert Walser as an Undigested Literary Phenomenon Jeffrey A. Bernstein ...

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• Authors: Corey (Elmira College Mccall, Corey Ross Mccall
• Assisted by: Corey McCall (Editor), Corey (Elmira College Mccall (Editor), Nathan Ross (Editor), Nathan (Adelphi University Ross (Editor), Nathan (Oklahoma City University Ross (Editor), Ross Nathan (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9781138103429
• ISBN: 978-1-138-10342-9
• No. of pages: 258
• Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy; Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; PHILOSOPHY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Philosophy: aesthetics, Western philosophy from c 1800, Literary theory, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -