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Author Gelley, Alexander, author

Title Benjamin's passages : dreaming, awakening / Alexander Gelley
Edition First edition
Published New York : Fordham University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (226 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction -- Contexts of the aesthetic -- Epigones in the house of language: Benjamin and Kraus -- Benjamin on atget: empty streets and the fading of aura -- Entering the passagen -- Citation as incitation: the political agenda of the passagenarbeit -- Messianism, "weak" and otherwise -- Forgetting, dreaming, awakening
Summary In transposing the Freudian dream work from the individual subject to the collective, Walter Benjamin projected a 'macroscosmic journey' of the individual sleeper to 'the dreaming collective, which, through the arcades, communes with its own insides'. This book examines the figurative status of sleeping and awakening within the allegorical structure of The Arcades Project and in Benjamin's thought more broadly
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 fast
Subject LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
PHILOSOPHY -- General.
Languages & Literatures.
Germanic Literature.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
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