cover next page > title : Walter Benjamin, an Aesthetic of Redemption Weimar and Now ; 7 author : Wolin, Richard. publisher : University of California Press isbn10 | asin : 0520084004 print isbn13 : 9780520084001 ebook isbn13 : 9780585181349 language : English subject Benjamin, Walter,--1892-1940--Criticism and interpretation. publication date : 1994 lcc : PT2603.E455Z96 1994eb ddc : 838/.91209 subject : Benjamin, Walter,--1892-1940--Criticism and interpretation. cover next page > < previous page cover-0 next page > Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism Martin Jay and Anton Kaes, General Editors 1. Heritage of Our Times, by Ernst Bloch 2. The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany, 18901990, by Steven E. Aschheim 3. The Weimar Republic Sourcebook, edited by Anton Kaes, Martin Jay, and Edward Dimendberg 4. Batteries of Life: On the History of Things and Their Perception in Modernity, by Christoph Asendorf 5. Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution, by Margaret Cohen 6. Hollywood in Berlin: American Cinema and Weimar Germany, by Thomas J. Saunders 7. Walter Benjamin: An Aesthetic of Redemption, by Richard Wolin 8. The New Typography, by Jan Tschichold, translated by Ruari McLean 7. Walter Benjamin: An Aesthetic of Redemption, by Richard Wolin 8. The New Typography, by Jan Tschichold, translated by Ruari McLean < previous page cover-0 next page > < previous page page_i next page > Page i Walter Benjamin < previous page page_i next page > < previous page page_ii next page > Page ii Benjamin in 1927, at the age of 35. (Photo: Suhrkamp Verlag) < previous page page_ii next page > < previous page page_iii next page > Page iii Walter Benjamin An Aesthetic of Redemption Richard Wolin with a new Introduction by the Author UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley Los Angeles London < previous page page_iii next page > < previous page page_iv next page > Page iv University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press London, England Copyright © 1994 by The Regents of the University of California Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wolin, Richard. Walter Benjamin, an aesthetic of redemption / Richard Wolin. [2nd ed.] p. cm.(Weimar and now; 7) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-520-08400-4 (alk. paper) 1. Benjamin, Walter, 18921940Criticism and interpretation. I. Title. II. Series. PT2603.E455Z96 1994 838´.91209dc20 93-30241 CIP Printed in the United States of America 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984 < previous page page_iv next page > < previous page page_v next page > Page v For my parents, Harold and Merle Wolin, with love and gratitude < previous page page_v next page > < previous page page_vii next page > Page vii Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xvii A Note on the Translations xviii A Note on Terminology xviii Introduction to the Revised Edition xix Chapter One 1 Origins 1 Childhood and Autobiography 4 Youth Movement 13 Romantic Anticapitalism Chapter Two 29 The Path to Trauerspiel 31 Experience, Kabbalah, and Language 48 Messianic Time Versus Historical Time 63 Allegory Chapter Three 79 Ideas and Theory of Knowledge 79 Anti-Historicism 84 The Essay as Mediation Between Art and Philosophical Truth 90 Constellation, Origin, Monad < previous page page_vii next page > < previous page page_viii next page > Page viii Chapter Four 107 From Messianism to Materialism 108 Radical Communism 118 One-Way Street and Dialectical Images 126 Surrealism Chapter Five 139 Benjamin and Brecht 139 "Crude Thinking" 148 Epic Theater 154 The Author as Producer Chapter Six 163 The Adorno-Benjamin Dispute 165 The Philosophical Rapprochement Between Benjamin and Adorno in the Early 1930s 173 The Arcades Exposé 183 Art and Mechanical Reproduction 198 Methodological Asceticism, Magic and Positivism 207 Beyond the Dispute Chapter Seven 213 Benjamin's Materialist Theory of Experience 218 The Disintegration of Community: Novel versus Story 226 Baudelaire, Modernity, and Shock Experience

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