Benjamin, Adorno, and the experience of literature / edited by Corey McCall and Nathan Ross.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: McCall, Corey (Editor), Ross, Nathan, 1977- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2018.
Series:Routledge studies in twentieth century philosophy ; 43.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Benjamin, Adorno, and the Experience of Literature; PART I Benjamin and Adorno: Literary Themes and Philosophical Debates; 1 Against the Reification of History: Benjamin and Adorno on Baudelaire; 2 Theatrum Philosophicum: Thinking Literature and Politics With Walter Benjamin; 3 Adorno and Beckett: Aesthetic Mimêsis and the Language of "The New"; 4 Abysmal Humanity: Anthropological Materialism in Georg Büchner and Walter Benjamin; PART II Kafka: "Fairy Tales for Dialecticians."
  • 5 Breaking Through the Mythic Organization of Life: On the Critique of Capitalism in Benjamin and Kafka6 The Virtue or Power of the Useless: Benjamin and Adorno on Kafka; 7 Discovering the Truth of Sancho Panza: The Meaning of Comedy in Adorno's and Benjamin's Divergent Readings of Don Quixote; PART III Proust: Recovering Experience; 8 Adorno and Proust: Memory, Childhood, and the Experiential Grounds of Social Criticism; 9 Seeing In, Seeing Through: Adorno and Proust; PART IV From Hölderlin to Walser: Poetic Afterlives; 10 Hölderlin's Aesthetic Critique of Modernity.
  • 11 Walter Benjamin on Hölderlin's "Poetic Cosmos"12 Wo bist du, Nachdenkliches! Sobriety and Poetic Determinability in Hölderlin and Walser; 13 Ramble On: Robert Walser at the Limits of Critical Theory; List of Contributors; Index.