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Description: Walter Benjamin and the Idea of Natural History by Eli Friedlander In this incisive new work, Eli Friedlander demonstrates that Walter Benjamins entire corpus, from early to late, comprises a rigorous and sustained philosophical questioning of how human beings belong to nature.Across seemingly heterogeneous writings, Friedlander argues, Benjamin consistently explores what the natural in the human comes to, that is, how nature is transformed, actualized, redeemed, and overcome in human existence. The book progresses gradually from Benjamins philosophically fundamental writings on language and nature to his Goethean empiricism, from the presentation of ideas to the primal history of the Paris arcades. Friedlanders careful analysis brings out how the idea of natural history inflects Benjamins conception of the work of art and its critique, his diagnosis of the mythical violence of the legal order, his account of the body and of action, of material culture and technology, as well as his unique vision of historical materialism.Featuring revelatory new readings of Benjamins major works that differ, sometimes dramatically, from prevailing interpretations, this book reveals the internal coherence and philosophical force of Benjamins thought. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Eli Friedlander is Laura Schwarz-Kipp Professor of Modern Philosophy at Tel Aviv University. His previous books include Walter Benjamin: A Philosophical Portrait (2015). Table of Contents AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Natural in the HumanPart I: Nature in Language1. God, Nature, and Man in Language2. Naming Beauty3. The Life and Afterlife of Words4. The Life of FormsPart II: Life and Fate5. The Guilt and Innocence of Life6. Fate, Redemption, and Hope in Love7. Myth, Law, and Life in CommonPart III: Body and Corporeality8. The Language of the Body and the Body of Language9. Acting NaturallyPart IV: Primal History10. "From the Pagan Context of Nature into the Jewish Context of History"11. Matters of Memory12. First and Second Nature in ArtPart V: The Image of the Contingent13. Distorted LifeNotesBibliographyIndex Review "Friedlanders interpretative lens offers his readers a genuinely illuminating and deeply convincing way of appreciating both the local detail and the overarching significance of Benjamins texts."—Stephen Mulhall, University of Oxford"Friedlanders highly original study resituates the interpretation and evaluation of Benjamins immensely fecund work within the context of the most advanced contemporary thinking on first and second nature. The book will have a considerable impact across the humanistic disciplines."—David E. Wellbery, University of Chicago"Friedlander succeeds beautifully and convincingly in presenting Benjamins seemingly heterogeneous oeuvre as a coherent philosophical effort. Timely reading for philosophers, Benjamin scholars, and all readers interested in the question of the human as a life-form in trying times."—Eva Geulen, Leibniz-Zentrum fÜr Literatur- und Kulturforschung"Friedlanders book resembles a work of origami, comprised of separate pieces folded together to create the illusion of a single, intricate form. And, just as complex origami sometimes requires glue, Friedlanders distinctive readings of Benjamin turn out to be an essential adhesive. In particular, the insights he offers about Benjamins influences, from Schopenhauer to Goethe, contextualize the philosophers work as only retrospective critique can do."—Sarah Moorhouse, Los Angeles Review of Books"[Walter Benjamin and the Idea of Natural History] may allow us to reread Benjamin with new clarity and exactness and... displays Friedlanders great attention to detail and rigorous scholarship."—Michael Villanova, Contemporary Political Theory"There has never been any doubt about the brilliance of Benjamins individual works.... Yet heretofore no one has undertaken to make the corpus cohere. This is Friedlanders task, and the result is revelatory and reinvigorating.... Highly recommended."—M. Uebel, CHOICE Details ISBN1503637700 Author Eli Friedlander Publisher Stanford University Press Series Cultural Memory in the Present Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781503637702 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-01-16 Imprint Stanford University Press Place of Publication Palo Alto Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2024-01-16 NZ Release Date 2024-01-16 US Release Date 2024-01-16 UK Release Date 2024-01-16 ISBN-10 1503637700 DEWEY 201.6508 Pages 350 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Alternative 9781503636552 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159728822;

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