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In the Language of Walter Benjamin
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In the Language of Walter Benjamin Paperback - 2000

by Carol Jacobs

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A series of essays from German academic scholar Walter Benjamin written between the late 60s through the early 90s.

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The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Paperback. New. 152 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches.
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Details

  • Title In the Language of Walter Benjamin
  • Author Carol Jacobs
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 152
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
  • Date 2000
  • Features Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # x-0801866693
  • ISBN 9780801866692 / 0801866693
  • Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.96 x 6.06 x 0.39 in (22.76 x 15.39 x 0.99 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Germany
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98042416
  • Dewey Decimal Code 838.912

From the publisher

If Walter Benjamin (with an irony that belies his seemingly tragic life) is now recognized as one of the century's most important writers, reading him is no easy matter. Benjamin opens one of his most notable essays, "The Task of the Translator", with the words "No poem is intended for the reader, no image for the beholder, no symphony for the listener". How does one read an author who tells us that writing does not communicate very much to the reader? How does one learn to regard what comes to us from Benjamin as something other than direct expression?

Carol Jacobs' In the Language of Walter Benjamin is an attempt to come to terms with this predicament. It does so by teasing out such guidelines for criticism as Benjamin seems to offer in The Origin of German Tragic Drama. Jacobs reminds us of Benjamin's distinction between truth and knowledge. She above all insists on his method of philosophical contemplation as performance, on a performance that demands precise immersion in the minute details of subject matter.

About the author

Carol Jacobs is a professor of comparative literature and English literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her books include Telling Time: Lvi-Strauss, Ford, Lessing, Benjamin, de Man, Wordsworth, Rilke and Uncontainable Romanticism: Shelley, Bront, Kleist.