Wild, Unforgettable Philosophy: In Early Works of Walter Benjamin

by Monad Rrenban

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780739108451
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	12/15/2004
Pages:	436
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.26(h) x 1.40(d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Philosophy/Language Chapter 2 Paradisal Play Chapter 3 "Feminine" Chapter 4 Round-Dance of Stray Feeling Chapter 5 For Secret Not Doom: Human's Proper Name Chapter 6 In God's Name Chapter 7 Form of Infinite Giving Up Chapter 8 Harmony of Some Old Words Chapter 9 History and the Drama of Philosophy Chapter 10 Doctrinal Form and its Esoteric Need Chapter 11 Presentation and its Doctrinal Tone Chapter 12 Prosaic Beauty Chapter 13 Ru(i)ned Chapter 14 Tremor-Identity: Genius of Time, Gift of Chaos Chapter 15 Sobriety of Wild Reason Chapter 16 Immanence Chapter 17 Justice Chapter 18 from another planet Chapter 19 Honest Rhythm Chapter 20 Philosophical Race of Ridiculed Exception Chapter 21 Natural Ethics: Loyalty to Things Chapter 22 In Name of Inorganic Community: Ethical Body Chapter 23 Bequest: Unforgettable, Wild Solitude Chapter 24 Death of Art and Philosophy Chapter 25 Ir(r)enstraße

Editorial Reviews

This study of Walter Benjamin is a truly extraordinary piece of scholarship. It is extraordinary in a number of respects: in the depth if its insight, the range of its coverage, the acuteness of its judgments, the thoroughness of its research, the dramatic intensity of its presentation....The results of his meticulous exposition are illuminating for Benjamin's work as a whole....In fact, I think it can be safely said that this is, by far, the best extended study of Walter Benjamin yet written in English.

Rainer Nägele

This study of Walter Benjamin is a truly extraordinary piece of scholarship. It is extraordinary in a number of respects: in the depth if its insight, the range of its coverage, the acuteness of its judgments, the thoroughness of its research, the dramatic intensity of its presentation....The results of his meticulous exposition are illuminating for Benjamin's work as a whole....In fact, I think it can be safely said that this is, by far, the best extended study of Walter Benjamin yet written in English.--Rainer Nägele, Johns Hopkins University

From the Publisher

This study of Walter Benjamin is a truly extraordinary piece of scholarship. It is extraordinary in a number of respects: in the depth if its insight, the range of its coverage, the acuteness of its judgments, the thoroughness of its research, the dramatic intensity of its presentation....The results of his meticulous exposition are illuminating for Benjamin's work as a whole....In fact, I think it can be safely said that this is, by far, the best extended study of Walter Benjamin yet written in English.

Rainer Nägele