Walter Benjamin and Romanticism
Walter Benjamin and Romanticism explores the relationship between Walter Benjamin's literary and philosophical work and the tradition of German Romanticism, as well as Hölderlin and Goethe. Through a detailed and scholarly analysis of the major texts, the book explores the endurance of Benjamin's relationship to Romanticism, the residual presence of Romantic Goethean and Hölderlinian motifs in Benjamin's subsequent writings and how Benjamin's understanding of the relationship between...
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Walter Benjamin and Romanticism explores the relationship between Walter Benjamin's literary and philosophical work and the tradition of German Romanticism, as well as H lderlin and Goethe. Through a detailed and scholarly analysis of the major texts, the book explores the endurance of Benjamin's relationship to Romanticism, the residual presence of Romantic Goethean and H lderlinian motifs in Benjamin's subsequent writings and how Benjamin's understanding of the relationship between criticism and Romanticism can still play a vital role in contemporary philosophical and literary practice.Contributors: Andrew Benjamin, Josh Cohen, David Ferris, Beatrice Hanssen, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Charlie Louth, Bettine Menke, Winfried Menninghaus, Anthony Phelan, Sigrid Weigel
AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsWalter Benjamin's Critical Romanticism: An Introduction1Pt. IWalter Benjamin and the Early Romantics71Introduction to Walter Benjamin's The Concept of Art Criticism in German Romanticism92Walter Benjamin's Exposition of the Romantic Theory of Reflection193The Sober Absolute: On Benjamin and the Early Romantics514Fortgang and Zusammenhang: Walter Benjamin and the Romantic Novel695'However one calls into the forest ...': Echoes of Translation836Unfolding: Reading After Romanticism987The Absolute as Translatability: Working through Walter Benjamin on Language1098Jena Romanticism and Benjamin's Critical Epistemology123Pt. IIBeyond Early Romanticism: Benjamin, Holderlin, Goethe1379'Dichtermut' and 'Blodigkeit' - Two Poems by Friedrich, Holderlin, Interpreted by Walter Benjamin13910Poetry's Courage16311Benjamin's Affinity: Goethe, the Romantics and the Pure Problem of Criticism18012The Artwork as Breach of a Beyond: On the Dialectic of Divine and Human Order in Walter Benjamin's 'Goethe's Elective Affinities'197Notes207Contributors243Index245
