عنوان

Walter Benjamin for children :

شابک

0226518655

شابک

9780226518657

کد کشور

bnb

شماره

b410911

عنوان اصلي

Walter Benjamin for children :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

an essay on his radio years /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Jeffrey Mehlman

نام خاص و کميت اثر

117 pages ;

ابعاد

23 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-114) and index

متن يادداشت

In light of the legendary difficulty of Walter Benjamin's works, it is a strange and intriguing fact that from 1929 to 1933 the great critic and cultural theorist wrote - and broadcast - numerous scripts, on the order of fireside chats, for children. Invited to speak on whatever subject he considered appropriate, Benjamin talked to the children of Frankfurt and Berlin about the destruction of Pompeii, an earthquake in Lisbon, and a railroad disaster at the Firth of Tay. He spoke about bootlegging and swindling, cataclysm and suicide, Faust and Cagliostro. In this first sustained analysis of the thirty surviving scripts. Jeffrey Mehlman demonstrates how Benjamin used the unlikely forum of children's radio to pursue some of his central philosophical and theological concerns. In Walter Benjamin for Children, readers will encounter a host of intertextual surprises: an evocation of the flooding of the Mississippi informed by the argument of "The Task of the Translator"; a discussion of scams in stamp-collecting that turns into "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"; a tale of bootlegging in the American South that converges with the best of Benjamin's forays into fiction. Mehlman superimposes a dual series of texts dealing with catastrophe, on the one hand, and fraud, on the other, and allows it to resonate with the false-messianic theology of Sabbatianism as it came to focus the attention and enthusiasm of Benjamin's friend Gershom Scholem during the same years. The radio scripts for children offer an unexpected byway, on the eve of apocalypse, into Benjamin's messianic preoccupations. A child's garden of deconstruction, these twenty-minute talks - from the perspective of childhood, before an invisible audience, on whatever happened to cross the critic's mind - are also by their very nature the closest we may ever come to a transcript of a psychoanalysis of Walter Benjamin. Particularly alive to that circumstance, Mehlman explores the themes of the radio broadcasts and brilliantly illuminates their hidden connections to Benjamin's life and work. This lucid analysis brings to light some of the least researched and understood aspects of Walter Benjamin's thought. It will interest and provoke literary theorists and philosophers of culture, as well as anyone who hopes to understand one of this century's most suggestive and perplexing critics

موضوع مستند نشده

Benjamin, Walter,1892-1940-- Criticism and interpretation

موضوع مستند نشده

Children's radio programs-- Germany-- Frankfurt am Main-- History

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Mehlman, Jeffrey

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

Mazal Holocaust Collection.

تاريخ عمليات

20160712060042.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y