The Politics of Imagination
Benjamin, Kracauer, Kluge
This book explores Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer and Alexander Kluge's analyses of the role that a rejuvenation in the capacity for imagination can play in encouraging us to reconceive the possibilities of the past, the present, and the future outside of the parameters of the status quo. The concept of imagination to which the title of the book refers is not a strictly defined, stable concept, but rather a term which is employed to refer to a capacity that facilitates both an active, creative relationship to one's environment, and a process of mediation between the outside world and one's own experiences and memories.
Through a detailed analysis of their engagements with subjects that span a broad range of historical and thematic contexts (including topics as diverse as literature, children's play, film, photography, history, and television) the book charts the extent to which the concept of imagination plays a central role in Benjamin, Kracauer, and Kluge's explorations of a mode of perception and experience which could serve as a catalyst for the creation and sustenance of a desire for a different kind of future.
Kapitel-Übersicht
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Frontmatter
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Contents
Seiten 5 - 8 -
Introduction
Seiten 9 - 18 -
Part 1: Walter Benjamin
Chapter 1: Benjamin, Proust and the Rejuvenating Powers of Memory
Seiten 21 - 42 -
Chapter 2: The Politics of Aura and Imagination in Benjamin's Writings on Hashish
Seiten 43 - 64 -
Chapter 3: "Reproducibility - Distraction - Politicization"
Seiten 65 - 86 -
Part 2: Siegfried Kracauer
Chapter 4: "Film as the Discoverer of the Marvels of Everyday Life": Kracauer and the Promise of Realist Cinema
Seiten 89 - 106 -
Chapter 5: On the Task of a Realist Historiography in Kracauer's History: The Last Things Before the Last
Seiten 107 - 124 -
Part 3: Alexander Kluge
Chapter 6: From History's Rubble: Kluge on Film, History, and Politics
Seiten 127 - 148 -
Chapter 7: Raw Materials for the Imagination: Kluge's Work for Television
Seiten 149 - 168 -
Conclusion
Seiten 169 - 174 -
Bibliography
Seiten 175 - 190 -
Other Works Cited
Seiten 191 - 192 -
Acknowledgements
Seiten 193 - 194
27. September 2015, 198 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8394-0681-6
Dateigröße: 3.44 MB