How to Do Things with Walter Benjamin
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22157292 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ak Thompson (Ithaca College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Lateral (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2469-4053 • E-ISSN: 2469-4053 |
| Publisher | Cultural Studies Association (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.25158/l9.2.3 |
| OpenAlex | W3114614307 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 2 |
Walter Benjamin is now a common reference point within cultural studies. But while a considerable secondary literature has emerged around his work, efforts to build upon his contributions by operationalizing the method they elaborate have remained relatively rare. Nevertheless, I maintain that it is solely through such operationalization that Benjamin’s intellectual project can truly be understood. In this article, I provide a sketch of Benjamin’s intellectual biography—with particular emphasis given to the purported tension between his metaphysics and his materialism—to highlight the overarching methodological coherence of his approach. In conclusion, I demonstrate how this method might be operationalized by cultural studies scholars today
Art history · Biography · Epistemology · Materialism · Metaphysics · Operationalization · Sketch · Sociology · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · History · Philosophy · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2021 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |