TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ferber,Ilit
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Philosophy and melancholy: Benjamin's early reflections on theater and language 
AV  - B3209.B584 F465 2013eb
U1  - 193 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Stanford, California
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Benjamin, Walter,
KW  - Melancholy (Philosophy)
KW  - Philosophy, German
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-231) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10747506
ER  -