Howard Caygill

Walter Benjamin

The Colour of Experience

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Produktbeschreibung

This book analyzes the development of Walter Benjamin's concept of experience in his early writings showing that it emerges from an engagement with visual experience, and in particular the experience of colour. It represents Benjamin as primarily a thinker of the visual field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 183
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781138142350
• ISBN-10: 1138142352
• Artikelnr.: 69945613

Autorenporträt

Howard Caygill is Professor of Cultural History at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and acknowledgements
References and abbreviations
Introduction
1 The programme of the coming philosophy
The concept of experience
A transcendental but speculative philosophy
Language and the infinities
Philosophising beyond philosophy
The experience of modernity
2 Speculative critique
Experience and immanent critique
The development of immanent critique
Mourning and tragedy
Modernism: ftom immanent to strategic critique
The modern epic
3 The work of art
Image and experience
The speculative image
The critique of art
Technology and the work of art
The work of art in the epoch of its technical reproducibility
4 The experience of the city
Speculative cities
Philosophy in the cities
Urban poetics
The image of the ciry
Afterword: the colour of experience
Notes
Biliography
Index.