Irving Wohlfarth
Biographic Data
| ID | 971918 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Irving Wohlfarth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Irving |
| FAMILY NAME | Wohlfarth |
| SIGNATURE | WOHLFARTH I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Berlin University of the Arts |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
La possibilité de l'impossible: Dialoguer avec Miguel Abensour
Die Willkür der Zeichen: Zu einem sprachphilosophischen Grundmotiv Walter Benjamins
In his article “Die Willkür der Zeichen” (originally published in: Perspektiven kritischer Theorie. Festschrift für Hermann Schweppenhäuser, ed. Christoph Türcke [Lüneburg, 1988], pp. 124-73) Iriving Wohlfarth retraces the role of the conventionalist theory of language within Benjamin's philosophy of language. In this perspective, the central premise of all modern linguistics, namely what Ferdinand de Saussure's Cours de Linguistique Generale ter…
Spielraum: Jeu et enjeu de la « seconde technique » chez Walter Benjamin
Cette partie [de l’humanité] qui peut prendre le plus grand risque théorique parce qu’elle a le moins à perdre sur le plan pratique. Les hommes en tant qu’espèce sont parvenus depuis des millénaires au terme de leur évolution ; mais l’humanité en tant qu’espèce est encore au début de la sienne. L’auteur ne s’en tient pas à ce qui s’est passé : il découvre aussi ce qui ne s’est pas produit. Bien entendu, il ne l’invente pas [...], il le découvre […
Spielraum. O jogo e a aposta da "segunda técnica" em Walter Benjamin
O artigo aborda a concepção de materialismo antropológico, desenvolvida por Walter Benjamin sobretudo em seus escritos tardios, por meio do conceito de técnica. Segundo a hipótese de leitura, a técnica moderna, se libertada do processo de dominação capitalista, poderia abrir um espaço de jogo (Spielraum) em que adominação da natureza pelo homem seria superada em prol de uma relação harmoniosa entre ambos
Las políticas de la juventud: La lectura de Walter Benjamín de El Idiota
Las políticas de la juventud: la lectura de Walter Benjamín de El Idiota
Was bleibt
Irving Wohlfarth legt eine Lektüre von Christa Wolfs Erzählung Was bleibt und ihrem Roman Stadt der Engel vor, in der er der Frage nachgeht, was einerseits von der Idee des Sozialismus nach dem Zusammenbruch des Realsozialismus, andererseits von Christa Wolfs Literatur nach ihrem Tod bleiben könnte. In dauerndem Rückbezug auf geistesverwandte Theoretiker wie Walter Benjamin erschließt der Autor unterschiedliche Schichten der fragenden Wendung ›wa…
Sobre algunos motivos judíos en Benjamin
Sobre algunos motivos judíos en Benjamin
Nietzsche and "An Architecture of Our Minds"
Manner aus der Fremde: "Walter Benjamin and the "German-Jewish Parnassus
The Politics of Youth: Walter Benjamin's Reading of The Idiot
Ça nous regarde: Réponse à la question : un rapport critique à la tradition épuise-t-il désormais notre rapport au passé ?
Of course a relation to the past is necessary but can one live on pure criticism? The question reflects the unease of a disenchanted civilization fearful that in freeing itself of the past it will exhaust its (re)sources. The first to formulate this dilemma was Nietzsche. As an alternative to an exhaustive and worn out historicism he suggested a triple monumental, antique and critical relation to the past, each one serving to correct the other tw…
Re-Fusing Theology. Some First Responses to Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project
The process of recasting (Umschmelzungsprozess) which has brought the whole, originally metaphysical mass of thoughts to an aggregate state (Aggregatszustand) in which the world ofdialectical images is proof against all the objections that metaphysics provokes. At this stage (indeed for the first time), I can serenely face whatever objections can be mobilized against the method of my work on the part of orthodox Marxism. 2
Walter Benjamin's Historicism
Despite frequent claims to the contrary, the later Walter Benjamin can be thought of as a materialist, even if only as a historical materialist sui generis. He himself insists too resolutely on this title for it to be summarily refused him. His adversary in the field of historiography is said to be historicism. The polemic against historicism dominates the sixth and seventh of the Theses on the Philoso
Et Cetera? The Historian as Chiffonnier
History, Literature and the Text: The Case of Walter Benjamin
If one wants to consider history as a text, then what a recent author says about literary texts also holds true for it. The past, he writes, has deposited images in them comparable to those retained by a photosensitive plate. Only the future has at its disposal developers strong enough to bring out the image in full detail. ... (Monglond) . . . To read what was never written, says Hofmannsthal. The reader in question is the true historian
Hibernation: On the Tenth Anniversary of Adorno's Death
Adorno once told me to get fried by the The following essay, the ungrateful response of a grateful former student, tries to bring this inestimable piece of advice to bear on his own system. It hopes thereby, in politically inert times, to keep alive the best impulses behind both critical theory and the student movement that wanted, however fallibly, to put it into practice. Slogans such as Adorno: public enemy number one were, it is true, sad ref…
Walter Benjamin's Image of Interpretation
The dissimulating harmony that Carol Jacobs elicits from her analyses of selected texts by Nietzsche, Rilke, Artaud and Benjamin marks an instructive contrast from the unmediated vision that Geoffrey Hartman derived twenty-five years before from his close readings of Wordsworth, Hopkins, Rilke and Valery. Each of these remarkable first works emerges with consistent but antithetical patterns of far from merely formalist patterns of discovery. Read…
No-Man's-Land: On Walter Benjamin's "Destructive Character"
Perte d'Aureole: The Emergence of the Dandy
Presentation of Adorno
The following essay on the relation of sociology and psychology should serve as a long overdue introduction of the work of Theodor Adorno to an English audience. While the English reader will be familiar with the writings of Herbert Marcuse (cf. nlr 30 and 45), who, along
Re-Fusing Theology. Some First Responses to Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project
The process of recasting (Umschmelzungsprozess) which has brought the whole, originally metaphysical mass of thoughts to an aggregate state (Aggregatszustand) in which the world ofdialectical images is proof against all the objections that metaphysics provokes. At this stage (indeed for the first time), I can serenely face whatever objections can be mobilized against the method of my work on the part of orthodox Marxism. 2
Walter Benjamin's Historicism
Despite frequent claims to the contrary, the later Walter Benjamin can be thought of as a materialist, even if only as a historical materialist sui generis. He himself insists too resolutely on this title for it to be summarily refused him. His adversary in the field of historiography is said to be historicism. The polemic against historicism dominates the sixth and seventh of the Theses on the Philoso
Et Cetera? The Historian as Chiffonnier
Die Willkür der Zeichen: Zu einem sprachphilosophischen Grundmotiv Walter Benjamins
In his article “Die Willkür der Zeichen” (originally published in: Perspektiven kritischer Theorie. Festschrift für Hermann Schweppenhäuser, ed. Christoph Türcke [Lüneburg, 1988], pp. 124-73) Iriving Wohlfarth retraces the role of the conventionalist theory of language within Benjamin's philosophy of language. In this perspective, the central premise of all modern linguistics, namely what Ferdinand de Saussure's Cours de Linguistique Generale ter…
Spielraum: Jeu et enjeu de la « seconde technique » chez Walter Benjamin
Cette partie [de l’humanité] qui peut prendre le plus grand risque théorique parce qu’elle a le moins à perdre sur le plan pratique. Les hommes en tant qu’espèce sont parvenus depuis des millénaires au terme de leur évolution ; mais l’humanité en tant qu’espèce est encore au début de la sienne. L’auteur ne s’en tient pas à ce qui s’est passé : il découvre aussi ce qui ne s’est pas produit. Bien entendu, il ne l’invente pas [...], il le découvre […
Spielraum. O jogo e a aposta da "segunda técnica" em Walter Benjamin
O artigo aborda a concepção de materialismo antropológico, desenvolvida por Walter Benjamin sobretudo em seus escritos tardios, por meio do conceito de técnica. Segundo a hipótese de leitura, a técnica moderna, se libertada do processo de dominação capitalista, poderia abrir um espaço de jogo (Spielraum) em que adominação da natureza pelo homem seria superada em prol de uma relação harmoniosa entre ambos
Manner aus der Fremde: "Walter Benjamin and the "German-Jewish Parnassus
History, Literature and the Text: The Case of Walter Benjamin
If one wants to consider history as a text, then what a recent author says about literary texts also holds true for it. The past, he writes, has deposited images in them comparable to those retained by a photosensitive plate. Only the future has at its disposal developers strong enough to bring out the image in full detail. ... (Monglond) . . . To read what was never written, says Hofmannsthal. The reader in question is the true historian
Hibernation: On the Tenth Anniversary of Adorno's Death
Adorno once told me to get fried by the The following essay, the ungrateful response of a grateful former student, tries to bring this inestimable piece of advice to bear on his own system. It hopes thereby, in politically inert times, to keep alive the best impulses behind both critical theory and the student movement that wanted, however fallibly, to put it into practice. Slogans such as Adorno: public enemy number one were, it is true, sad ref…
Walter Benjamin's Image of Interpretation
The dissimulating harmony that Carol Jacobs elicits from her analyses of selected texts by Nietzsche, Rilke, Artaud and Benjamin marks an instructive contrast from the unmediated vision that Geoffrey Hartman derived twenty-five years before from his close readings of Wordsworth, Hopkins, Rilke and Valery. Each of these remarkable first works emerges with consistent but antithetical patterns of far from merely formalist patterns of discovery. Read…
Presentation of Adorno
The following essay on the relation of sociology and psychology should serve as a long overdue introduction of the work of Theodor Adorno to an English audience. While the English reader will be familiar with the writings of Herbert Marcuse (cf. nlr 30 and 45), who, along
Perte d'Aureole: The Emergence of the Dandy
No-Man's-Land: On Walter Benjamin's "Destructive Character"
Hibernation: On the Tenth Anniversary of Adorno's Death
Adorno once told me to get fried by the The following essay, the ungrateful response of a grateful former student, tries to bring this inestimable piece of advice to bear on his own system. It hopes thereby, in politically inert times, to keep alive the best impulses behind both critical theory and the student movement that wanted, however fallibly, to put it into practice. Slogans such as Adorno: public enemy number one were, it is true, sad ref…
Walter Benjamin's Image of Interpretation
The dissimulating harmony that Carol Jacobs elicits from her analyses of selected texts by Nietzsche, Rilke, Artaud and Benjamin marks an instructive contrast from the unmediated vision that Geoffrey Hartman derived twenty-five years before from his close readings of Wordsworth, Hopkins, Rilke and Valery. Each of these remarkable first works emerges with consistent but antithetical patterns of far from merely formalist patterns of discovery. Read…
History, Literature and the Text: The Case of Walter Benjamin
If one wants to consider history as a text, then what a recent author says about literary texts also holds true for it. The past, he writes, has deposited images in them comparable to those retained by a photosensitive plate. Only the future has at its disposal developers strong enough to bring out the image in full detail. ... (Monglond) . . . To read what was never written, says Hofmannsthal. The reader in question is the true historian
Re-Fusing Theology. Some First Responses to Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project
The process of recasting (Umschmelzungsprozess) which has brought the whole, originally metaphysical mass of thoughts to an aggregate state (Aggregatszustand) in which the world ofdialectical images is proof against all the objections that metaphysics provokes. At this stage (indeed for the first time), I can serenely face whatever objections can be mobilized against the method of my work on the part of orthodox Marxism. 2
Walter Benjamin's Historicism
Despite frequent claims to the contrary, the later Walter Benjamin can be thought of as a materialist, even if only as a historical materialist sui generis. He himself insists too resolutely on this title for it to be summarily refused him. His adversary in the field of historiography is said to be historicism. The polemic against historicism dominates the sixth and seventh of the Theses on the Philoso
Et Cetera? The Historian as Chiffonnier
The Politics of Youth: Walter Benjamin's Reading of The Idiot
Ça nous regarde: Réponse à la question : un rapport critique à la tradition épuise-t-il désormais notre rapport au passé ?
Of course a relation to the past is necessary but can one live on pure criticism? The question reflects the unease of a disenchanted civilization fearful that in freeing itself of the past it will exhaust its (re)sources. The first to formulate this dilemma was Nietzsche. As an alternative to an exhaustive and worn out historicism he suggested a triple monumental, antique and critical relation to the past, each one serving to correct the other tw…
Manner aus der Fremde: "Walter Benjamin and the "German-Jewish Parnassus
Nietzsche and "An Architecture of Our Minds"
Sobre algunos motivos judíos en Benjamin
Sobre algunos motivos judíos en Benjamin
Was bleibt
Irving Wohlfarth legt eine Lektüre von Christa Wolfs Erzählung Was bleibt und ihrem Roman Stadt der Engel vor, in der er der Frage nachgeht, was einerseits von der Idee des Sozialismus nach dem Zusammenbruch des Realsozialismus, andererseits von Christa Wolfs Literatur nach ihrem Tod bleiben könnte. In dauerndem Rückbezug auf geistesverwandte Theoretiker wie Walter Benjamin erschließt der Autor unterschiedliche Schichten der fragenden Wendung ›wa…
Las políticas de la juventud: La lectura de Walter Benjamín de El Idiota
Las políticas de la juventud: la lectura de Walter Benjamín de El Idiota
Spielraum: Jeu et enjeu de la « seconde technique » chez Walter Benjamin
Cette partie [de l’humanité] qui peut prendre le plus grand risque théorique parce qu’elle a le moins à perdre sur le plan pratique. Les hommes en tant qu’espèce sont parvenus depuis des millénaires au terme de leur évolution ; mais l’humanité en tant qu’espèce est encore au début de la sienne. L’auteur ne s’en tient pas à ce qui s’est passé : il découvre aussi ce qui ne s’est pas produit. Bien entendu, il ne l’invente pas [...], il le découvre […
Spielraum. O jogo e a aposta da "segunda técnica" em Walter Benjamin
O artigo aborda a concepção de materialismo antropológico, desenvolvida por Walter Benjamin sobretudo em seus escritos tardios, por meio do conceito de técnica. Segundo a hipótese de leitura, a técnica moderna, se libertada do processo de dominação capitalista, poderia abrir um espaço de jogo (Spielraum) em que adominação da natureza pelo homem seria superada em prol de uma relação harmoniosa entre ambos
Die Willkür der Zeichen: Zu einem sprachphilosophischen Grundmotiv Walter Benjamins
In his article “Die Willkür der Zeichen” (originally published in: Perspektiven kritischer Theorie. Festschrift für Hermann Schweppenhäuser, ed. Christoph Türcke [Lüneburg, 1988], pp. 124-73) Iriving Wohlfarth retraces the role of the conventionalist theory of language within Benjamin's philosophy of language. In this perspective, the central premise of all modern linguistics, namely what Ferdinand de Saussure's Cours de Linguistique Generale ter…
La possibilité de l'impossible: Dialoguer avec Miguel Abensour
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