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Benjamin, Adorno, and the Experience of Literature book cover

1st Edition

Benjamin, Adorno, and the Experience of Literature

Edited By Corey McCall, Nathan Ross Copyright 2018
266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge
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This collection features original essays that examine Walter Benjamin’s and Theodor Adorno’s essays and correspondence on literature. Taken together, the essays present the view that these two monumental figures of 20 th -century philosophy were not simply philosophers who wrote about literature, but that they developed their philosophies in and through their encounters with literature.... Read more

Introduction

Corey McCall and Nathan Ross

Part I. Benjamin and Adorno: Literary Themes and Philosophical Debates

1. Against the Reification of History: Benjamin and Adorno on Baudelaire

Corey McCall

2. Theatrum Philosophicum: Thinking Literature and Politics with Walter Benjamin

Oscar Guardiola-Rivera

3. Adorno and Beckett: Aesthetic Mimēsis and The Language of ‘The New’

Marcia Morgan

4. Abysmal Humanity: Anthropological Materialism in Georg Büchner and Walter Benjamin

Cat Moir

Part II. Kafka: ‘Fairy Tales for Dialecticians’

5. Breaking the Mythic Organization of Life: On Literary Form and Political Tendency in Benjamin’s Reading of Kafka

Nathan Ross

6. The Virtue or Power of the Useless: Benjamin and Adorno on Kafka

Idit Dobbs-Weinstein

7. Discovering the Truth of Sancho Panza: The Meaning of Comedy in Adorno’s and Benjamin’s Differing Readings of Don Quixote

Meanchem Feuer

Part III. Proust: Recovering Experience

8. The Proustian Roots of Adorno’s Idea of Social Criticism

Roger Foster

9. Seeing-In, Seeing-Through: Adorno and the Platonism of Proust

Owen Hulatt

Part IV: From Hölderlin to Walser: Poetic Afterlives

10. Hölderlin’s Aesthetic Critique of Modernity

Michael J. Thompson

11. Benjamin on Hölderlin’s Poetic Cosmos

Hyun Höchsmann

12. Wo bist Du Nachdenkliches! Poetic Determinability in Hölderlin and Walser

Stéphane Symons

13. Robert Walser as an Undigested Literary Phenomenon

Jeffrey A. Bernstein

Biography

Corey McCall is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Elmira College, USA

Nathan Ross is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oklahoma City University, USA

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