Ferber, Ilit. <br/><br/>
Philosophy and melancholy  Benjamin's early reflections on theater and language /  [electronic resource] : 
Ilit Ferber. 
 - Stanford, California :  Stanford University Press,  2013. 
 - x, 241 p. 
 - Cultural memory in the present .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-231) and index. 
<br/><br/>Benjamin and Freud : at the juncture of melancholy loss -- Commitment and loyalty to the lost object -- The intentionless nature of truth -- Work and play : a view of melancholic productivity -- The Trauerspiel : reflections on the baroque -- Expressions of pain in the Trauerspiel -- The bombastic nature of expression in the Trauerspiel -- Pain and spectacle : the figure of the martyr -- Death and meaning : the figure of the ghost -- Language and loss : Benjamin's concept of expression -- Creation and loss : "on language as such" -- Lament : language and sadness -- The ghosts of language : "the task of the translator" -- The "epistemo-critical prologue" -- The "monad" : Leibniz and Benjamin -- The monads' configuration as a hierarchy -- A pre-established harmony : Benjamin's conception of truth as harmony -- Stimmung : philosophy and mood. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Melancholy (Philosophy)<br/>Philosophy, German--20th century.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>B3209.B584  / F465 2013eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>193