Beschreibung
Walter Benjamin is one of the most important figures of modern culture. The authors focus within this book on Benjamin as a philosopher, or rather as a critic of modernism entangled in tradition (mainly Jewish), but also as a writer. Philosophical and philological readings are accompanied by essays presenting the complex biography of Benjamin and numerous, often unexpected, parallels which indicate traces of his reflections in works of other artists. In consequence, «The Arcades Project», which can be described as Benjamin’s opus vitae, is not only a picturesque history of Parisian arcades of the mid-19th century. It is also a polyphonic text, composed of quotations, commentaries and footnotes, a discussion of the sense of history and the literary work of art that surprises with its meandering quality.
Autorenportrait
Pawe? Stachura is an Associate Professor with the Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna?. He has published on 19th-century American literature, American science fiction, literary theory, and comparative literature.
Piotr ?niedziewski is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Romanticism of the Polish Studies Institute at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna?. He has published on 19th-century French and Polish literature, literary theory, and melancholy.
Krzysztof Trybu? is a Full Professor at the Polish Studies Institute at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna?. His research focuses on the history of Polish literature of Romanticism, mainly on works by Norwid and Mickiewicz, and on literary tradition and cultural memory.
