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Wild, Unforgettable Philosophy: In Early Works of Walter Benjamin

Wild, Unforgettable Philosophy: In Early Works of Walter Benjamin

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PhilosophyArt Criticism & Theory

ISBN10: 073910845X
ISBN13: 9780739108451
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Dec 15 2004
Pages: 436
Weight: 1.80
Height: 1.41 Width: 6.32 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Through reading the early work of Walter Benjamin - up to and including the Trauerspiel book, Monad Rrenban brings forth a cohesive conception of the wild, unforgettable form, philosophy, as inherent in everything. Somewhat on the basis of existing philosophemes of Western metaphysics, Benjamin's well-known esotericism performs the transience of constraints of meaning. Both the form - free from duplicitous, authoritarian, and rational meaning - and the practice, of philosophy, enable production of the philosophical not only by so-called philosophers but also conceivably by everything - including art, poetry, and literature. In life and death, Walter Benjamin has and had the status of exile from departmental philosophy. Especially from Benjamin's early work, however, Monad Rrenban is able to elicit the force of the form, philosophy. Distinct in its analysis and depth of analysis, Wild, Unforgettable Philosophy in Early Works of Walter Benjamin elaborates the wild, unforgettable form - philosophy - in relation to language, the discipline and the practice of philosophy, criticism, and the politics of death.

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