Benjamin's Passages : Dreaming, Awakening.

Benjamin's Passages : Dreaming, Awakening.

In transposing the Freudian dream work from the individual subject to the collective, Walter Benjamin projected a ""macroscosmic journey"" of the individual sleeper to ""the dreaming collective, which, through the arcades, communes with its own insides."" Benj...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gelley, Alexander
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Benjamin, Walter, > 1892-1940 > Criticism and interpretation.
Benjamin, Walter, > 1892-1940
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Contexts of the Aesthetic
  • Epigones in the House of Language: Benjamin and Kraus
  • Benjamin on Atget: Empty Streets and the Fading of Aura
  • Entering the Passagen
  • Citation as Incitation: The Political Agenda of the Passagenarbeit
  • Messianism, “Weakâ€? and Otherwise
  • Forgetting, Dreaming, Awakening

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