Experience and Infinite Task (eBook)

Knowledge, Language and Messianism in the Philosophy of Walter Benjamin

Tamara Tagliacozzo (Autor)

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2017
200 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
978-1-78660-043-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Offering a panoramic view of much of Benjamin’s thought, and concentrating in particular on his early writings, this book derives from a philosophical analysis of readings and studies by Benjamin that have not heretofore been considered in detail.

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This book examines the philosophical thought of the young Walter Benjamin and its development in his later work. Starting from his critique of the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and Hermann Cohen, the author traces the relationships among Benjamin's theories - developed in tandem with his friend Gershom Scholem - of knowledge, language, ethics, politics, the philosophy of history and aesthetics, all linked to the Judaic theme of messianism and language as a realm of redemption. She delineates a horizon in which the concept of experience as structure, philosophical system and "e;infinite task"e; (On the Program of the Coming Philosophy, 1917/18) evolves into a concept of the origin as monad (The Origin of German Tragic Drama, 1925), merging finally into the historical concept as monad and dialectical image (On the Concept of History, 1940). Tagliacozzo asserts that the concept of experience as structure and symbolic system, derived from his critical interpretation of Kant and Neo-Kantianism, develops into a conception of thought founded on a theological language of revelation.

Autor

lt;span>Tamara Tagliacozzo is Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy at the Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy.

Inhalt

1. Philosophy of Language and Critique of Knowledge in the early Works and Fragments of Walter Benjamin / 2. Messianism and Political Theology in Walter Benjamin / 3. The “Constellation" of Capitalism. Walter Benjamin and Max Weber / 4. Messianism and Music in Walter Benjamin / Bibliography / Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.12.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Founding Critical Theory
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: Continental Philosophy • Critical theory • ethics • Metaphysics • Moral Philosophy
• ISBN-10: 1-78660-043-9 / 1786600439
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78660-043-1 / 9781786600431