The messianic reduction Walter Benjamin and the shape of time /

Fenves, Peter D. 1960-

The messianic reduction Walter Benjamin and the shape of time / Peter Fenves. - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [(c)2011.] - 1 online resource (xiv, 312 pages) - Meridian, crossing aesthetics . - Meridian (Stanford, Calif.) .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : the course of the argument -- Substance poem versus function poem : two poems of Friedrich Hölderlin -- Entering the phenomenological school and discovering the color of shame -- Existence toward space : two "Rainbows" from around 1916 -- The problem of historical time : conversing with Scholem, criticizing Heidegger in 1916 -- Meaning in the proper sense of the word : "On language as such and on human language" and related logico-linguistic studies -- Pure knowledge and the continuity of experience : "On the program of the coming philosophy" and its supplements -- The political counterpart to pure practical reason : from Kant's doctrine of right to Benjamin's category of justice -- Conclusion : the shape of time.



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Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.


Phenomenology.
Time.


Electronic Books.

B3209.584