Stephane Symons

The Work of Forgetting

Or, How Can We Make the Future Possible?

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a critical discussion of the turn to memory, a key evolution in the humanities in the last 50 years. It offers an innovative interpretation of Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history and his oeuvre at large, taking a thematic approach to the issue of forgetting, based on detailed readings of key philosophers of the 20th century.

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Produktdetails

• Philosophical Projections
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9781785523236
• ISBN-10: 1785523236
• Artikelnr.: 53693998

Autorenporträt

Stephane Symons is Assistant Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy at KU Leuven, Belgium. He is the author of Walter Benjamin: Presence of Mind, Failure to Comprehend (Brill, 2013) and More than Life: Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin on Art (Northwestern UP, 2017), editor of The Marriage of Aesthetics and Ethics (Brill, 2015) and co-editor of Walter Benjamin and Theology (Fordham UP, 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction: The Work of Forgetting. Or, How Can We Make
the Future Possible? Chapter One: What is Thought? And How Can We Bring It
About? Chapter Two: What is the Immemorial? And How Can We Make It Go Away?
Chapter Three: What is the Child? Or How Can We Begin Anew? By Way of
Conclusion: A Note on Shadows Index