Crises Aesthetic and Politic: Walter Benjamin and the revolutionary reader Público

Colison, Raymond Nelson (2012)

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Crises Aesthetic and Politic: Walter Benjamin and the revolutionary reader
In the chapters that follow, I try to draw a line of thought that starts from questions of misinterpretation concerning Benjamin's artwork essay. In what branches off from there I try to maintain a level of critical intensity and determined non-determination. For example, the first chapter starts with the question of the existence of a definitive version of the Kunstwerk essay and, along the way in addressing that problem, also tries to lay out a new way of approaching the critical works of Walter Benjamin as exemplifying a new way of (or return to old ways even!) reading texts in an age where scholarly work seems to be growing increasingly sensitive to issues dealing with the erasure or covering up of less canonical traditions outside the pale of "standard" or "orthodox" criticism.

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Chapter 1: Revisiting the Kunstwerk Essay
Chapter 2: The Act of Witnessing
Chapter 3: The Gambler

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