Walter Benjamin: The Colour of Experience,9780415089586

Walter Benjamin: The Colour of Experience

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ISBN13: 9780415089586
ISBN10: 0415089581
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1998-01-16
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

In this major reinterpretation, Howard Caygill argues that all of Benjamin's work is characterized by its focus on a concept of experience derived from Kant but applied by Benjamin to objects as diverse as urban experience, visual art, literature and philosophy. The book analyzes the development of Benjamin's concept of experience in his early writings showing that it emerges from an engagement with visual experience, and in particular the experience of colour. By representing Benjamin as primarily a thinker of the visual field, Caygill is able to bring forward previously neglected texts on inscription and the visual field and to cast many of his more familiar texts, for instance theWork of Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproductionin a new light.

Table of Contents

Preface and acknowledgements ix(1)
References and abbreviations x(1)
Introduction xi
1 The programme of the coming philosophy
1(33)
The concept of experience
1(4)
A transcendental but speculative philosophy
5(8)
Language and the infinities
13(10)
Philosophising beyond philosophy
23(6)
The experience of modernity
29(5)
2 Speculative critique
34(46)
Experience and immanent critique
34(1)
The development of immanent critique
35(17)
Mourning and tragedy
52(9)
Modernism: from immanent to strategic critique
61(11)
The modern epic
72(8)
3 The work of art
80(38)
Image and experience
80(2)
The speculative image
82(7)
The critique of art
89(4)
Technology and the work of art
93(4)
The work of art in the epoch of its technical reproducibility
97(21)
4 The experience of the city
118(31)
Speculative cities
118(2)
Philosophy in the cities
120(14)
Urban poetics
134(9)
The image of the city
143(6)
Afterword: the colour of experience 149(4)
Notes 153(7)
Biliography 160(3)
Index 163

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