Benjamin's Passages: Dreaming, Awakening by Alexander Gelley (English) Paperback

Description: Benjamin's Passages by Alexander Gelley Benjamins Passages: Dreaming, Awakening is focused on central issues of Benjamins later work: the interplay of aesthetics and politics; the conception of language; the fading of aura and its relation to image; citation in The Arcades Project; the status of messianism; the motifs of memory, the crowd, and awakening. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In transposing the Freudian dream work from the individual subject to the collective, Walter Benjamin projected a "macroscosmic journey" of the individual sleeper to "the dreaming collective, which, through the arcades, communes with its own insides." Benjamins effort to transpose the dream phenomenon to the history of a collective remained fragmentary, though it underlies the principle of retrograde temporality, which, it is argued, is central to his idea of history.The "passages" are not just the Paris arcades: They refer also to Benjamins effort to negotiate the labyrinth of his work and thought. Gelley works through many of Benjamins later works and examines important critical questions: the interplay of aesthetics and politics, the genre of The Arcades Project, citation, language, messianism, aura, and the motifs of memory, the crowd, and awakening.For Benjamin, memory is not only antiquarian; it functions as a solicitation, a call to a collectivity to come. Gelley reads this call in the motif of awakening, which conveys a qualified but crucial performative intention of Benjamins undertaking. Author Biography Alexander Gelley is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Contexts of the Aesthetic 2. Epigones in the House of Language: Benjamin on Kraus 3. Benjamin on Atget: Empty Streets and the Fading of Aura 4. Entering the Passagen 5. Citation as Incitation: The Political Agenda of the Passagenarbeit 6. Messianism, "Weak" and Otherwise 7. Forgetting, Dreaming, Awakening Works Cited Index Review "Alex Gelleys interpretation of the Passagenwerk is the work of a lifetime concentrated as a gem. While commentaries were multiplying at exponential rate, he kept meditating and researching. The result is a unique resurrection of Benjamins practice of "puzzling the world together", around the antithetic themes of liberating the powers of dream and anticipating the day of awakening. Whoever thought to have understood Benjamin should pause and read Gelley first." -- -Etienne Balibar author of Equaliberty "Alexander Gelleys book offers an extremely subtle and persuasive reading of Benjamins later work, fully attentive to its fragmentary nature but also deftly linking it to all of the writers continuing philosophical preoccupations. The study does not situate Benjamin narrowly within his own historical time, but neither does it fold him into a single later view. What Gelley traces for us are the works own invitations to its afterlife, and in this context he writes strikingly of Benjamins dream of situating phenomena in the light of their historical lapse. Benjamin speaks of the whole contradictory foundation of his convictions, and this book allows us to begin to grasp that foundation without betraying any of its contradictions." -- -Michael Wood Princeton University "A major achievement, Benjamins Passages is an invaluable contribution to Benjamin studies and all the fields connected with it. " -- -Michael G. Levine Rutgers University Prizes Commended for Choice: Outstanding Academic Title 2016 Long Description In transposing the Freudian dream work from the individual subject to the collective, Walter Benjamin projected a "macroscosmic journey" of the individual sleeper to "the dreaming collective, which, through the arcades, communes with its own insides." Benjamins effort to transpose the dream phenomenon to the history of a collective remained fragmentary, though it underlies the principle of retrograde temporality, which, it is argued, is central to his idea of history. The "passages" are not just the Paris arcades: They refer also to Benjamins effort to negotiate the labyrinth of his work and thought. Gelley works through many of Benjamins later works and examines important critical questions: the interplay of aesthetics and politics, the genre of The Arcades Project, citation, language, messianism, aura, and the motifs of memory, the crowd, and awakening. For Benjamin, memory is not only antiquarian; it functions as a solicitation, a call to a collectivity to come. Gelley reads this call in the motif of awakening, which conveys a qualified but crucial performative intention of Benjamins undertaking. Review Text "Alex Gelleys interpretation of the Passagenwerk is the work of a lifetime concentrated as a gem. While commentaries were multiplying at exponential rate, he kept meditating and researching. The result is a unique resurrection of Benjamins practice of "puzzling the world together", around the antithetic themes of liberating the powers of dream and anticipating the day of awakening. Whoever thought to have understood Benjamin should pause and read Gelley first." --tienne Balibar, author of Equaliberty Review Quote "A major achievement, Benjamins Passages is an invaluable contribution to Benjamin studies and all the fields connected with it. "--Michael G. Levine, Rutgers University "Alex Gelleys interpretation of the Passagenwerk is the work of a lifetime concentrated as a gem. While commentaries were multiplying at exponential rate, he kept meditating and researching. The result is a unique resurrection of Benjamins practice of "puzzling the world together", around the antithetic themes of liberating the powers of dream and anticipating the day of awakening. Whoever thought to have understood Benjamin should pause and read Gelley first."--tienne Balibar, author of Equaliberty "Alexander Gelleys book offers an extremely subtle and persuasive reading of Benjamins later work, fully attentive to its fragmentary nature but also deftly linking it to all of the writers continuing philosophical preoccupations. The study does not situate Benjamin narrowly within his own historical time, but neither does it fold him into a single later view. What Gelley traces for us are the works own invitations to its afterlife, and in this context he writes strikingly of Benjamins dream of situating phenomena in the light of their historical lapse. Benjamin speaks of the whole contradictory foundation of his convictions, and this book allows us to begin to grasp that foundation without betraying any of its contradictions."--Michael Wood, Princeton University Details ISBN082326257X Author Alexander Gelley Publisher Fordham University Press ISBN-10 082326257X ISBN-13 9780823262571 Publication Date 2014-12-15 Short Title BENJAMINS PASSAGES Language English Media Book Format Paperback Illustrations Yes Pages 232 Year 2014 Imprint Fordham University Press Subtitle Dreaming, Awakening Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States UK Release Date 2014-12-15 AU Release Date 2014-12-15 NZ Release Date 2014-12-15 US Release Date 2014-12-15 Alternative 9780823262564 DEWEY 838.91209 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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