Mapping Benjamin

Mapping Benjamin
Author :
Publisher :
Total Pages : 376
Release :
ISBN-10 : UOM:39015056308896
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Mapping Benjamin by : Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

Download or read book Mapping Benjamin written by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its publication in 1936, Walter Benjamin’s "Artwork” essay has become a canonical text about the status and place of the fine arts in modern mass culture. Benjamin was especially concerned with the ability of new technologies--notably film, sound recording, and photography--to reproduce works of art in great number. Benjamin could not have foreseen the explosion of imagery and media that has occurred during the past fifty years. Does Benjamin’s famous essay still speak to this new situation? That is the question posed by the editors of this book to a wide range of leading scholars and thinkers across a spectrum of disciplines in the humanities. The essays gathered here do not hazard a univocal reply to that question; rather they offer a rich, wide-ranging critique of Benjamin’s position that refracts and reflects contemporary thinking about the ethical, political, and aesthetic implications of life in the digital age.


Mapping Benjamin Related Books

Mapping Benjamin
Language: en
Pages: 376
Authors: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Since its publication in 1936, Walter Benjamin’s "Artwork” essay has become a canonical text about the status and place of the fine arts in modern mass cult
A Map of Tulsa
Language: en
Pages: 274
Authors: Benjamin Lytal
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-26 - Publisher: Penguin

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

“If Catcher in the Rye has lost its raw clout for recent generations of Internet-suckled American youth, here is a coming-of-age novel to replace it.” —Pu
The Mysteries of the Marco Polo Maps
Language: en
Pages: 197
Authors: Benjamin B. Olshin
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-29 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Concerns a collection of maps and associated documents claimed to be from Marco Polo's time or that of his daughters (as many of the maps have the name or one o
Walter Benjamin
Language: en
Pages: 306
Authors: Graeme Gilloch
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-23 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The works of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) are widely acclaimed as being among the most original and provocative writings of twentieth-century critical thought, a
Reading and Mapping Fiction
Language: en
Pages: 353
Authors: Sally Bushell
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-07-02 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book explores the power of the map in fiction and its centrality to meaning, from Treasure Island to Winnie-the-Pooh.