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100 1 $aSteiner, Uwe.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr90015750
245 10 $aWalter Benjamin :$ban introduction to his work and thought /$cUwe Steiner ; translated by Michael Winkler.
260 $aChicago :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c2010.
300 $axiv, 230 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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505 00 $gChapter One.$tIntroduction -- $g1.$tA Contemporary of Modernity -- $g2.$tLife and Works -- $g3.$tCompanions, Influences -- $gChapter Two.$tEarly Writings, 1914-18 -- $g1.$tApotheosis of the Mind (Geist): Beginnings inside the Youth Movement -- $t"Dialogue on Contemporary Religiosity" (1912); "The Life of Students" (1915-16) -- $g2.$tLife of the Work of Art -- $t"Two Poems by Friedrich Holderlin" (1914-15); "The Idiot by Dostoevsky" (1917-21) -- $g3.$tDefining His Philosophical Position -- $t"On the Program of the Coming Philosophy" (1917-18) -- $g4.$tThe Magic of Language -- $tLetter to Buber of July 17, 1916; "On Language as Such and on the Language of Man" (1916); "The Task of the Translator" (1921) -- $gChapter Three.$tArt Criticism and Politics, 1919-25 -- $g1.$tRomantic Philosophy of Art and Its Contemporary Relevance -- $tThe Concept of Criticism in German Romanticism (1919-20) -- $g2.$tExemplary Criticism: "Goethe's Elective Affinities" -- $t"Announcement of the Journal Angelus Novus" (1912); -- $t"Goethe's Elective Affinities" (1921-25) -- $g3.$tThe Problematic of Art: Criticism and Allegorical Artwork -- $tOrigin of German Tragic Drama (1923-28) -- $g4.$tPaul Scheerbart and the Concept of the Political -- $t"Theological-political Fragment" (1920-21); "The True Politician" (1921-25); "Critique of Violence" (1921); "Paul Scheerbart: Lesabendio" (1917-19) -- $gChapter Four.$tJournalistic Commitment and Essayistic Work, 1925-33 -- $g1.$tProfane Illumination: Surrealism and Politics -- $tOne-Way Street (1923-28); "Moscow" (1927); "Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the German Intelligentsia" (1929) -- $g2.$tThe "Strategist in the Literary Struggle" -- $tReviews of Literary Scholarship (1926-31): Gundolf, Walzel, Kommerell, Ermatinger; "Politicizing the Intelligentsia" (1930-32): Reviews of Haas, Kastner, Hiller, Kracauer, Junger -- $g3.$tThe Task of the Critic -- $t"Collected Essays on Literature" (1929-30); "Journal Project: Krisis and Kritik" (1930); "Johann Peter Hebel" (1926); "Gottfried Keller" (1927); "Robert Walser" (1929); "Julien Green" (1929); "On the Image of Proust" (1929); "Karl Kraus" (1931); "Paul Valery" (1931); "Bert Brecht" (1930); "What is the Epic Theater?" (1931-39) -- $gChapter Five.$tExile Writings, 1933-39 -- $g1.$tThe Changing Function of Art -- $t"The Present Social Situation of the French Writer" (1933-34); "The Author as Producer" (1934); "Eduard Fuchs, Collector and Historian" (1937); "The Regression of Poetry' by C. G. Jochmann" (1939) -- $g2.$tThe Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility -- $t"Little History of Photography" (1931); "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility" (1935-36) -- $g3.$tReinstatement of Epic Narration -- $t"Experience and Poverty" (1933); "The Crisis of the Novel: Doblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz" (1930); "The Storyteller: Observations on the Works of Nikolai Leskov" (1936); "Franz Kafka: Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer" (1931); "Franz Kafka. On the Tenth Anniversary of His Death" (1934) -- $gChapter Six.$tPrimal History of Modernism, 1931-40 -- $g1.$tBerlin Childhood around 1900 -- $t"Berlin Chronicle" (1932); "Berlin Childhood around 1900" (1932-38); "Doctrine of the Similar/On the Mimetic Faculty" (1933) -- $g2.$tParisian Arcades -- $tThe Arcades Project (1927-1940); "Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century" (1935); "Paris, capitale du XIXeme siecle" (1939) -- $g3.$tCharles Baudelaire": A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism -- $t"The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire" (1938); "On Some Motifs in Baudelaire" (1939); "Central Park" (1939) -- $g4.$tThe Concept of History -- $t"On the Concept of History" (1940); "Arcades Project: Files J and N" -- $gChapter Seven.$tPosthumous Influence and Stages of Reception -- $g1.$tRecord of Extant Material and Editions -- $g2.$tReception.
500 $aOriginal German language edition published by J. B. Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung und Carl Ernst Poeschel Verlag GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany, 2004.
500 $aTranslated from the German.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 1 $a""Uwe Steiner is widely regarded as one of the leading Benjamin scholars working today, with particular expertise in aspects of Benjamin's work that are less familiar to an English-language audience. In Walter Benjamin, he has produced a truly outstanding introduction to Benjamin's work; this book is the product of a career spent thinking about Benjamin. Steiner is able not just to open up major works and concepts, but to show, in very short compass, their place in a complex cultural field. His ability to combine deep reading with broad contextualization is the ideal combination for a critical introduction to this major thinker. Written with precision and lucidity, this book does a real service to the legions of readers interested in Benjamin." Michael Jennings, Princeton University" "Praise For the German Edition" ""The scholarly judgment in this account proves itself insightful and reliable in showing how Benjamin holds his own uniquely labrinthine course through the sway of powerful contemporaries, as well as showing how decisively he could advance through improbable detours with figures of much lesser intrinsic significance or value. For this reason, the book offers much to those long familiar with Benjamin's receptio, as well as to those looking for a sound introduction."" "Monatshefte"[Steiner's] dual focus on text and context offers a fruitful and illminating introduction to Benjamin's challenging writings." Paragaph" "Seven decades after his death, German Jewish writer, philosopher, and literary critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) continues to fascinate and influence. Here Uwe Steiner offers a comprehensive and sophisticated introduction to the oeuvre of this intriguing theorist." "Acknowledged only by a small circle of intellectuals during his lifetime, Benjamin is now a major figure whose work is essential to an understanding of modernity. Steiner traces the development of Benjamin's thought chronologically through his writings on philosophy, literature, history, politics, the media, art, photography, cinema, technology, and theology. Walter Benjamin reveals the essential coherence of its subject's thinking while also analyzing the controversial or puzzling facets of Benjamin's work. That coherence, Steiner contends, can best be appreciated by placing Benjamin in his proper context as a member of the German philosophical tradition and a participant in contemporary intellectual debates." "As Benjamin's writing attracts more and more readers in the English-speaking world, Walter Benjamin will be a valuable guide to this fascinating body of work."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aBenjamin, Walter,$d1892-1940$xCriticism and interpretation.
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