Walter Benjamin's Love Affair with Death
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4071528 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rey Chow (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Issue | 48 |
| Pages | 63 |
| Publication date | 1989-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New German Critique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-033X • E-ISSN: 1558-1462 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/488233 |
| OpenAlex | W2331830694 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
For some time now, the figure of Walter Benjamin has loomed large among students of modern culture and cultural theory. If it was once true that [t]he fascination of the person and of his work allowed no alternative other than that of magnetic attraction or horrified rejection,' critics have increasingly used Benjamin to articulate aspects of postmodern culture, no doubt because his writings enable readers to follow a trajectory of subversiveness against cultural conformism. Although Benjamin did not use the term other, his work consistently turns on the otherness (the barbarism) of monumental history, positioning itself in a combat mode that is always ready, not to attack, but to take off in an unexpected direction. Benjamin's elusiveness makes it possible for some of his readers to say that his ground is nothing
Environmental ethics · Psychoanalysis · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Cultural Studies and Postmodernism · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2005 - 2016 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |