Melancholy Dialectics: Walter Benjamin and the Play of Mourning by Max Pensky
Melancholy Dialectics: Walter Benjamin and the Play of Mourning
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Max Pensky
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Melancholy Dialectics: Walter Benjamin and the Play of Mourning

Critical Perspectives on Modern Culture

Max Pensky

281 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

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A comprehensive view of Benjamin's achievement, focusing on the central ideas of mourning and melancholia, developed in Benjamin's early work, Origin of German Tragic Drama (1928). Pensky sees the contradictions in Benjamin's thought as part of th...

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