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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2005Reading Walter Benjamin
Writing through the catastrophe
by Richard Lane
'Reading Walter Benjamin' explores the persistence of absolute in Benjamin's work by sketching-out the relationship between philosphy and theology apparent in his diverse writings, from the early youth-movement essays to the later books, essays and fragments. The book examines Benjamin from two main perspectives: a history-of-ideas approach situating Benjamin in relation to the new German-Jewish thinking at the turn of the twentieth-century, as well as the German youth movements, Surrealism and the 'Georgekreis'; and a conceptual approach examining more critical issues in relation to Benjamin and Kant, modern aesthetics and narrative order. Chapters cover: 'Kulturpessimismus' and the new thinking; metaphysics of youth: Wyneken and 'Rausch'; history: surreal Messianism; Goethe and the 'Georgekreis'; Kant's experience; casting the work of art; disrupting textual order; and exile and the time of crisis. The book uses new translations of Benjamin's essays, fragments and his 'Arcades Project', and makes substantial reference to previously untranslated material. Lane's text allows the non-specialist entry into complex areas of critical theory, simultaneously offering original readings of Benjamin and twentieth-century arts and literature. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesInteresting Philosphy: Modern Philosophy
by Cibala
The first book of five in the Interesting Philosphy series, this book walks the reader through interpreting and brainstorming sixteen different stories. From the idea of "faith" that dominated the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, to "knowledge" as the theme of the seventeenth and eigteenth centuries, Modern Philosphy discusses both large and small events that have left a mark on philosophy today.
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February 2020De onzichtbare maat
Archeologie van goed en kwaad
by Andreas Kinneging
The modern age is characterised by excess. But this goes directly against the great European tradition, stretching back to Athens and Jerusalem, which is all about moderation and restraint, and whose core idea is that the right measure can be found in the real world, although it is not visible. You have to seek it out. There is a right measure in everything: the right size clothes, the right amount of food and drink, the right balance between work and play, joy and sorrow, freedom and equality. Tact is a form of moderation. So is reasonableness. Ultimately, good and evil are nothing more than knowing where to draw the line. This insight, this wisdom, has been swept away by the ideologies of Enlightenment and Romanticism, which dominate the modern world. They are both ideologies of boundlessness, or in other words, excess. The Enlightenment seeks salvation in unlimited economic and technological progress, the infinite satisfaction of desires. Romanticism seeks happiness in endless experimentation and endless introspection, in search of the infinite Self. The result is a world thrown off balance and people without purpose or direction. Yet the answer is so simple: the right measure. Our ancestors knew it. We have forgotten it. This book dusts off tradition and brings it back to life.
