Alexander Gelley

Benjamin's Passages (eBook, PDF)

Dreaming, Awakening

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In transposing the Freudian dream work from the individual subject to the collective, Walter Benjamin projected a GCGBPmacroscosmic journeyGC of the individual sleeper to GCGBPthe dreaming collective, which, through the arcades, communes with its own insides.GC BenjaminGCOs effort to transpose the dream phenomenon to the history of a collective remained fragmentary, though it underlies the principle of retrograde temporality, which, it is argued, is central to his idea of history.The GpassagesG are not just the Paris arcades: They refer also to BenjaminGs effort to negotiate the labyrinth of his work and thought. Gelley works through many of BenjaminGs later works and examines important critical questions: the interplay of aesthetics and politics, the genre of The Arcades Project, citation, language, messianism, aura, and the motifs of memory, the crowd, and awakening.For Benjamin, memory is not only antiquarian; it functions as a solicitation, a call to a collectivity to come. Gelley reads this call in the motif of awakening, which conveys a qualified but crucial performative intention of BenjaminGs undertaking.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780823262595
• Artikelnr.: 44777187

Autorenporträt

Alexander Gelley is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine.