Walter Benjamin and the idea of natural history
"In this incisive new work, Eli Friedlander demonstrates that Walter Benjamin's entire corpus, from early to late, comprises a rigorous and sustained philosophical questioning of how human beings belong to nature. Across seemingly heterogeneous writings, Friedlander argues, Benjamin consis...
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| Language: | English |
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Stanford, California
Stanford University Press
[2024]
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
| Series/Journal: | Cultural memory in the present
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Benjamin, Walter 1892-1940
/ Environmental psychology
/ Nature (Motif)
/ Philosophy
/ Philosophy of language
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism BH Judaism NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Natural History
Philosophy
B Benjamin, Walter (1892-1940) B Environmental psychology |
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| Summary: | "In this incisive new work, Eli Friedlander demonstrates that Walter Benjamin's entire corpus, from early to late, comprises a rigorous and sustained philosophical questioning of how human beings belong to nature. Across seemingly heterogeneous writings, Friedlander argues, Benjamin consistently explores what the natural in the human comes to, that is, how nature is transformed, actualized, redeemed, and overcome in human existence. The book progresses gradually from Benjamin's philosophically fundamental writings on language and nature to his Goethean empiricism, from the presentation of ideas to the primal history of the Paris arcades. Friedlander's careful analysis brings out how the idea of natural history inflects Benjamin's conception of the work of art and its critique, his diagnosis of the mythical violence of the legal order, his account of the body and of action, of material culture and technology, as well as his unique vision of historical materialism. Featuring revelatory new readings of Benjamin's major works that differ, sometimes dramatically, from prevailing interpretations, this book reveals the internal coherence and philosophical force of Benjamin's thought." In diesem prägnanten neuen Werk zeigt Eli Friedlander, dass Walter Benjamins gesamtes Werk, von den frühen bis zu den späten Werken, eine rigorose und nachhaltige philosophische Auseinandersetzung mit der Zugehörigkeit des Menschen zur Natur darstellt. In scheinbar heterogenen Schriften, so argumentiert Friedlander, untersucht Benjamin konsequent, was das Natürliche im Menschen ausmacht, d. h. wie die Natur in der menschlichen Existenz transformiert, verwirklicht, erlöst und überwunden wird. Das Buch schreitet schrittweise von Benjamins philosophisch grundlegenden Schriften über Sprache und Natur zu seinem Goetheschen Empirismus, von der Darstellung der Ideen zur Urgeschichte der Pariser Arkaden fort. Friedlanders sorgfältige Analyse zeigt, wie die Idee der Naturgeschichte Benjamins Konzeption des Kunstwerks und seiner Kritik, seine Diagnose der mythischen Gewalt der Rechtsordnung, seine Darstellung des Körpers und des Handelns, der materiellen Kultur und Technologie sowie seine einzigartige Vision des historischen Materialismus beeinflusst. Dieses Buch enthält aufschlussreiche neue Lesarten von Benjamins Hauptwerken, die sich teilweise dramatisch von den vorherrschenden Interpretationen unterscheiden. Es enthüllt die innere Kohärenz und philosophische Kraft von Benjamins Gedanken. [Mit KI übersetzt] Introduction : the natural in the human -- God, nature and man in language -- Naming beauty -- The life and afterlife of words -- The life of forms -- The guilt and innocence of life -- Fate, redemption and hope in love -- Myth, law and life in common -- The language of the body and the body of language -- Acting naturally -- "From the pagan context of nature ... into the Jewish context of history" -- Matters of memory -- First and second nature in art -- Distorted life. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 311-315 |
| Physical Description: | xi, 333 Seiten, 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 978-1-5036-3655-2 978-1-5036-3770-2 |
