Betty Schulz

The Fractured Subject

Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An investigation of Benjamin's conception of the subject as fractured via a reading of Benjamin's use of Freud, this book engages Benjamin's writing on sovereignty and myth in the Baroque and analyzes these themes in the context of Benjamin's writing on the 19th century.

Produktdetails

• Founding Critical Theory
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9781538163368
• ISBN-10: 1538163365
• Artikelnr.: 63657818

Autorenporträt

Bernadette Schulz is a researcher at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Baroque Sovereignty and the Fractured Subject
Chapter 2 - Melancholia, Possession, Critique
Chapter 3 - Beyond the Pleasure Principle in the Arcades
Chapter 4- The Types of the 19th century: Benjamin's Case Studies
Chapter 5 - Dreaming
Chapter 6 - Awakening
Bibliography
About the Author