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• Introduction
• Corey McCall and Nathan Ross
• Part I. Benjamin and Adorno: Literary Themes and Philosophical Debates
• 1. Against the Reification of History: Benjamin and Adorno on Baudelaire
• Corey McCall
• 2. Theatrum Philosophicum: Thinking Literature and Politics with Walter Benjamin
• Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
• 3. Adorno and Beckett: Aesthetic Mimesis and The Language of `The New'
• Marcia Morgan
• 4. Abysmal Humanity: Anthropological Materialism in Georg Buchner and Walter Benjamin
• Cat Moir
• Part II. Kafka: `Fairy Tales for Dialecticians'
• 5. Breaking the Mythic Organization of Life: On Literary Form and Political Tendency in Benjamin's Reading of Kafka
• Nathan Ross
• 6. The Virtue or Power of the Useless: Benjamin and Adorno on Kafka
• Idit Dobbs-Weinstein
• 7. Discovering the Truth of Sancho Panza: The Meaning of Comedy in Adorno's and Benjamin's Differing Readings of Don Quixote
• Meanchem Feuer
• Part III. Proust: Recovering Experience
• 8. The Proustian Roots of Adorno's Idea of Social Criticism
• Roger Foster
• 9. Seeing-In, Seeing-Through: Adorno and the Platonism of Proust
• Owen Hulatt
• Part IV: From Hoelderlin to Walser: Poetic Afterlives
• 10. Hoelderlin's Aesthetic Critique of Modernity
• Michael J. Thompson
• 11. Benjamin on Hoelderlin's Poetic Cosmos
• Hyun Hoechsmann
• 12. Wo bist Du Nachdenkliches! Poetic Determinability in Hoelderlin and Walser
• Stephane Symons
• 13. Robert Walser as an Undigested Literary Phenomenon
• Jeffrey A. Bernstein.
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This collection features original essays that examine Walter Benjamin's and Theodor Adorno's essays and correspondence on literature. Taken together, the essays present the view that these two monumental figures of 20th-century philosophy were not simply philosophers who wrote about literature, but that they developed their philosophies in and through their encounters with literature. Benjamin, Adorno, and the Experience of Literature is divided into three thematic sections. The first section contains essays that directly demonstrate the ways in which literature enriched the thinking of Benjamin and Adorno. It explores themes that are recognized to be central to their thinking-mimesis, the critique of historical progress, and the loss and recovery of experience-through their readings of literary authors such as Baudelaire, Beckett, and Proust. The second section continues the trajectory of the first by bringing together four essays on Benjamin's and Adorno's reading of Kafka, whose work helped them develop a distinctive critique of and response to capitalism. The third and final section focuses more intently on the question of what it means to gain authentically critical insight into a literary work. The essays examine Benjamin's response to specific figures, including Georg Buchner, Robert Walser, and Julien Green, whose work he sees as neglected, undigested, or misunderstood. This book offers a unique examination of two pivotal 20th-century philosophers through the lens of their shared experiences with literature. It will appeal to a wide range of scholars across philosophy, literature, and German studies.
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$a 本书对播州土司文化及海龙囤遗址的研究与开 发有着重要的意义, 对申请世界文化遗产也有着不可低估的作用. 本书所载的民间故事即传说主要以播州杨氏土司 为主, 其中又以播州杨氏最后一任土司杨应龙为主. 具体包括: 播州杨氏的传说; 海龙囤的传说; 播州地名的传说; 播州土司其他传说故事; 播州土司传说研究.

• Exoteric Dossier: The Literary Agamben-- Projection: There is Language-- Part I: On the Way to Logopoiesis--
• 1. Logos: Thinking, Thought--
• 2. Poeisis: Thinking Through Making--
• 3. Modernity: Productive Anti-Poeisis-- Part II: Adventures in Logopoeisis--
• 4. Logopoeisis: Thinking Tautology--
• 5. Enjambment: The Turn of Verse--
• 6. Caesura: The Space of Thought Recursion: The Turning of Thinking-- Bibliography-- Index.
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This is the first complete account of all Giorgio Agamben's philosophical work on literature. While Giorgio Agamben is most widely known for his political philosophy, at least a third of his output is dedicated to unique, technical and revelatory readings of literature. Indeed, it is impossible to fully understand Agamben's overall movement towards a Messianic philosophy to come without knowledge of the role of poetry in his ontology. The Literary Agamben considers the totality of Agamben's detailed and varied work on literature and poiesis. Organised around three areas, language, poiesis and modernity, the book explains Agamben's theory of literary singularity in all its complexity. William Watkin details Agamben's particular 'ontological' take on linguistics, works through Agamben's definition of poetry as the tension between semantic and semiotic, and engages with Agamben's aggressive yet insightful critique of modern art as productively nihilistic. The book presents Agamben's overall conception of poiesis and its relevancy to future readings in literature, as well as an understanding of how poiesis forms the crucial third part of Agamben's overall philosophical system alongside the more widely disseminated terms 'exception' and 'potentiality'. "The Philosophy, Aesthetics and Cultural Theory series" examines the encounter between contemporary Continental philosophy and aesthetic and cultural theory. Each book in the series explores an exciting new direction in philosophical aesthetics or cultural theory, identifying the most important and pressing issues in Continental philosophy today.
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