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1 online resource. |
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text file |
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Philosophical projections
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Philosophical projections.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements; Introduction; A Note on Primo Levi; Notes; Chapter One: What Is Thought? And How Can We Bring It About?; 'Dichtermut' and 'Blödigkeit'; The Concept of Aufgabe; The Aufgabe of Thought; The Turning of Time; Nihilism and Messianism in the 'Theological-Political Fragment'; A Note on Gershom Scholem; From Universal Forgetting to the Unforgettable; A Note on Theodor Adorno; Notes; Chapter Two: What Is the Immemorial? And How Can We Make It Go Away?; Freud Contra Transience; Heidegger's Ground; A Note on Ernst Jünger; Benjamin and Experience |
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To Have Done with the ImmemorialA Note on Marcel, Albertine and Gilberte; Notes; Chapter Three: What Is the Child? Or How Can We Begin Anew?; From Nietzsche to Arendt; A Note on Virgil and Augustine; Benjamin's Non-Metaphysics of Youth; Das Tagebuch; Notes; By Way of Conclusion; Notes; Abbreviations and Translations; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
| Summary |
This book presents a critical discussion of the turn to memory, a key evolution in the humanities in the last 50 years. It offers an innovative interpretation of Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history and his oeuvre at large, taking a thematic approach to the issue of forgetting, based on detailed readings of key philosophers of the 20th century. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.
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Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940. |
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Memory (Philosophy)
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Memory (Philosophy) |
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History -- Philosophy.
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History -- Philosophy. |
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Critical theory.
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Critical theory. |
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Electronic books.
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How can we make the future possible? |
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Print version: Symons, Stéphane (Philosopher), author. Work of forgetting Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield International, 2019 9781785523236 (DLC) 2018057201 |
| ISBN |
9781785523243 (epub) |
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1785523244 |
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9781785523236 (cloth) (alkaline paper) |
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1785523236 |
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