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Fredric Jameson The Benjamin Files (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Benjamin Files
- Publication Name
- The Benjamin Files
- Title
- The Benjamin Files
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1839765577
- EAN
- 9781839765575
- ISBN
- 9781839765575
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Genre
- Philosophy, Political Science
- Release Date
- 22/03/2022
- Release Year
- 2022
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Length
- 8.3in
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 8.6 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Topic
- History & Theory, General, Criticism, Political
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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Jameson's first full-length engagement with Walter Benjamin's work. The Benjamin Files offers a comprehensive new reading of all of Benjamin's major works and a great number of his shorter book reviews, notes and letters. Its premise is that Benjamin was an anti-philosophical, anti-systematic thinker whose conceptual interests also felt the gravitational pull of his vocation as a writer. What resulted was a coexistence or variety of language fields and thematic codes which overlapped and often seemed to contradict each other: a view which will allow us to clarify the much-debated tension in his works between the mystical or theological side of Benjamin and his political or historical inclination. The three-way tug of war over his heritage between adherents of his friends Scholem, Adorno and Brecht, can also be better grasped from this position, which gives the Brechtian standpoint more due than most influential academic studies. Benjamin's corpus is an anticipation of contemporary theory in the priority it gives language and representation over philosophical or conceptual unity; and its political motivations are clarified by attention to the omnipresence of History throughout his writing, from the shortest articles to the most ambitious projects. His explicit program--"to transfer the crisis into the heart of language" or, in other words, to detect class struggle at work in the most minute literary phenomena--requires the reader to translate the linguistic or representational literary issues that concerned him back into the omnipresent but often only implicitly political ones. But the latter are those of another era, to which we must gain access, to use one of Benjamin's favorite expressions.
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Publisher
Verso Books
ISBN-10
1839765577
ISBN-13
9781839765575
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6050420903
Product Key Features
Book Title
Benjamin Files
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
History & Theory, General, Criticism, Political
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Philosophy, Political Science
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.3in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
8.6 Oz
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B3209.B584j36 2022
Reviews
"Probably the finest cultural critic in the world ... one of the great stylists among literary theorists, whose rolling waves of sentences unfurl in such leisurely fashion that the reader must take deep breaths, careful not to be dragged under before the next full stop arrives." --Terry Eagleton, LRB "Probably the most important cultural critic writing in English today ... It can be truly said that nothing cultural is alien to him." --Colin MacCabe "In The Benjamin Files , the high Jamesonian style is everywhere on display, with the slight difference that the prose in this book seems at once more forthright and more playful than in many of the older works." --Ian Balfour, Los Angeles Review of Books "Jameson skilfully situates Benjamin within his immediate and wider contexts, and he is an attentive close reader, drawing out the tight, mutual links between form and content in Benjamin's thought." -- Carolin Duttlinger, Times Literary Supplement "Marvelous." -- David Carrier, Hyperallergic "[Jameson] is probably the finest cultural critic in the world ... There seems to be almost nothing he hasn't read, apart perhaps from the odd manual on pig-farming, and the wealth of cultural knowledge packed into this latest offering is astonishing." --Terry Eagleton, London Review of Books, "Fredric Jameson is America's leading Marxist critic. A prodigiously energetic thinker whose writings sweep majestically from Sophocles to science fiction." --Terry Eagleton "Probably the most important cultural critic writing in English today ... It can be truly said that nothing cultural is alien to him." --Colin MacCabe "In The Benjamin Files , the high Jamesonian style is everywhere on display, with the slight difference that the prose in this book seems at once more forthright and more playful than in many of the older works." --Ian Balfour, Los Angeles Review of Books, "Probably the finest cultural critic in the world ... one of the great stylists among literary theorists, whose rolling waves of sentences unfurl in such leisurely fashion that the reader must take deep breaths, careful not to be dragged under before the next full stop arrives." --Terry Eagleton, London Review of Books "Probably the most important cultural critic writing in English today ... It can be truly said that nothing cultural is alien to him." --Colin MacCabe "In The Benjamin Files , the high Jamesonian style is everywhere on display, with the slight difference that the prose in this book seems at once more forthright and more playful than in many of the older works." --Ian Balfour, Los Angeles Review of Books "Jameson skilfully situates Benjamin within his immediate and wider contexts, and he is an attentive close reader, drawing out the tight, mutual links between form and content in Benjamin's thought." -- Carolin Duttlinger, Times Literary Supplement "Marvelous." -- David Carrier, Hyperallergic "Alert to the finest of ... nuances, Fredric Jameson has given us a Benjamin whose mental fulgurations can still illuminate a world blown backwards through the thickening dark." --Stuart Walton, Review 31
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2020-023370
Dewey Decimal
193
Dewey Edition
23
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