Andrew BenjaminArt, Mimesis and the Avant-Garde
Aspects of a Philosophy of Difference
Andrew Benjamin lectures in philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Translation and the Nature of Philosophy (1989) and What is Deconstruction? (1988, with Christopher Norris), and has edited several collections including Post-structuralist Classics (1988) and Problems of Modernity: Adorno and Benjamin (1989), both in the Warwick Studies in Philosophy and Literature series published by Routledge.
INTRODUCTION: INAUGURATING REPETITION 1 INTERPRETING REFLECTIONS: PAINTING
MIRRORS 2 SPACING AND DISTANCING 3 BETRAYING FACES: LUCIAN FREUD'S
SELF[1]PORTRAITS 4 PRESENT REMEMBRANCE: ANSELM KIEFER'S ICONOCLASTIC
CONTROVERSY 5 KITAJ AND THE QUESTION OF JEWISH IDENTITY 6 MALEVICH AND THE
AVANT-GARDE 7 EISENMAN AND THE HOUSING OF TRADITION 8 PLURALISM, THE
COSMOPOLITAN AND THE AVANT-GARDE 9 THE DECLINE OF ART: BENJAMIN'S AURA 10
TRADITION AND EXPERIENCE: WALTER BENJAMIN'S 'ON SOME MOTIFS IN BAUDELAIRE'
11 DESCARTES' FABLE: THE DISCOURS DE LA METHODE 12 THE REDEMPTION OF VALUE:
LAPORTE, WRITING AS ABKURZUNG
