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Words of Light

Theses on the Photography of History

Szerző: Eduardo Cadava

Nyelv:

Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: Princeton University Press

Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten

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Here, Eduardo Cadava demonstrates that Walter Benjamin articulates his conception of history through...

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Szerző

Eduardo Cadava

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

1998

oldal

208

EAN

9780691002682

ISBN

0691002681

Enbook ID

04639114

Kiadó

Princeton University Press

Súly

340

Méretek

155 x 233 x 13

Teljes leírás

Here, Eduardo Cadava demonstrates that Walter Benjamin articulates his conception of history through the language of photography. Focusing on Benjamin's discussions of the flashes and images of history, he argues that the questions raised by this link between photography and history touch on issues that belong to the entire trajectory of his writings: the historical and political consequences of technology, the relation between reproduction and mimesis, images and history, remembering and forgetting, allegory and mourning, and visual and linguistic representation.The book establishes the photographic constellation of motifs and themes around which Benjamin organizes his texts and thereby becomes a lens through which we can begin to view his analysis of the convergence between the new technological media and a revolutionary concept of historical action and understanding. Written in the form of theses - what Cadava calls "snapshots in prose" - the book memorializes Benjamin's own thetic method of writing. It enacts a mode of conceiving history that is neither linear nor successive, but rather discontinuous - constructed from what Benjamin calls "dialectical images." In this way, it not only suggests the essential rapport between the fragmentary form of Benjamin's writing and his effort to write a history of modernity but it also skillfully clarifies the relation between Benjamin and his contemporaries, the relation between fascism and aesthetic ideology. It gives us the most complete picture to date of Benjamin's reflections on history.