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 -