Melancholy dialectics
Subtitle: Walter Benjamin and the play of mourning
By: Max Pensky.
Series: Critical perspectives on modern culture
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
Subjects: Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- Philosophy.; Melancholy in literature.; Grief in literature.
Description: Through close readings of the Origin of the German Play of Mourning, the essays on surrealism and Baudelaire, and the unfinished Arcades Project, Pensky demonstrates that Benjamin's attempt to work through this "melancholy dialectics" lies at the core of his mature thought.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-278) and index.