Walter Benjamin's Philosophy: Destruction and Experience
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This collection explores, in Adorno's description, 'philosophy directed against philosophy'. The essays cover all aspects of Benjamin's writings, from his early work in the philosophy of art and language, through to the concept of history. The experience of time and the destruction of false continuity are identified as the key themes in Benjamin's understanding of history.
Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Destruction and Experience1Benjamin, Heidegger and the Destruction of Tradition12Tradition and Destruction: Walter Benjamin's Politics of Language323Small-scale Victories, Large-scale Defeats: Walter Benjamin's Politics of Time594Afformative, Strike: Benjamin's 'Critique of Violence'1105Beware Mexican Ruins! 'One-Way Street' and the Colonial Unconscious1396No-man's-land: On Walter Benjamin's 'Destructive Character'1557Objective Diversions: On Some Kantian Themes in Benjamin's 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction'1838Cosmos in Film: On the Concept of Space in Walter Benjamin's 'Work of Art' Essay2059Time and Task: Benjamin and Heidegger Showing the Present21610Benjamin's Endgame251Index292
