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Words of Light
Eduardo Cadava
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Fotografie, Film, Video, TV
Beschreibung
Here Eduardo Cadava demonstrates that Walter Benjamin articulates his conception of history through the language of photography. Focusing on Benjamin's discussions of the flashes and images of history, he argues that the questions raised by this link between photography and history touch on issues that belong to the entire trajectory of his writings: the historical and political consequences of technology, the relation between reproduction and mimesis, images and history, remembering and forgetting, allegory and mourning, and visual and linguistic representation. The book establishes the photographic constellation of motifs and themes around which Benjamin organizes his texts and thereby becomes a lens through which we can begin to view his analysis of the convergence between the new technological media and a revolutionary concept of historical action and understanding.
Written in the form of theses--what Cadava calls "snapshots in prose"--the book memorializes Benjamin's own thetic method of writing. It enacts a mode of conceiving history that is neither linear nor successive, but rather discontinuous--constructed from what Benjamin calls "dialectical images." In this way, it not only suggests the essential rapport between the fragmentary form of Benjamin's writing and his effort to write a history of modernity but it also skillfully clarifies the relation between Benjamin and his contemporaries, the relation between fascism and aesthetic ideology. It gives us the most complete picture to date of Benjamin's reflections on history.
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Jacques Lacan, Sophistication, Consciousness, Alterity, Copernican Revolution (metaphor), Dialectic, Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics, Historicity, Nazi propaganda, Surrealism, Critique, Jacques Derrida, Historical method, Samuel Weber, James Strachey, Mimesis, Tristan Tzara, Evocation, Cultural critic, Work of art, Physiognomy, Philosophy, Pragmatism, Werner Hamacher, Psychoanalysis, Allegory, Precognition, Technology, Paul Virilio, Nazism, The German War, Die Wacht am Rhein, Modernity, Reproducibility, Hannah Arendt, Medusa's Head, Gleichschaltung, Aphorism, Tragedy, Mein Kampf, Plotinus, Temporality, Writing, Thought, Originality, Nietzsche and Philosophy, Theory of art, Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, Scholem, Dream world (plot device), Gershom Scholem, Paul de Man, Critique of Pure Reason, Theodor W. Adorno, Historicism, Cat's Cradle, Invisible ink, Aestheticism, Immanence, Intentionality, The Pencil of Nature, Gerhard Richter, Henri Bergson, Film theory, Photography, Judith Butler, Of Grammatology, Matter and Memory, Immanuel Kant