Title: Melancholy dialectics
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.
Subjects: Grief in literature, Melancholy in literature, Philosophy, Drama, history and criticism, 20th century, Benjamin, walter, 1892-1940, Depression, In literature
People: Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)