Walter Benjamin: The Colour of ExperienceThis book analyzes the development of Walter Benjamin's concept of experience in his early writings showing that it emerges from an engagement with visual experience, and in particular the experience of colour. It represents Benjamin as primarily a thinker of the visual field. |
Contents
The programme of the coming philosophy | 1 |
Speculative critique | 34 |
The work of art | 80 |
The experience of the city | 118 |
Urban poetics | 134 |
The image of the city | 143 |
the colour of experience | 149 |
Biliography | 160 |
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absolute aesthetic allegory analysis Arcades Project architecture argument art criticism auratic baroque Baudelaire Baudelaire's Benjamin describes Benjamin's thought character chromatic colour Coming Philosophy Concept of Art concept of experience configuration contemporary Critique of Violence culture death destruction dialectical distinction emerges epic epic theatre epoch essay explored expression fascism film flâneur formal fragments freedom Friedrich Hölderlin future German Mourning Play German Romanticism GS II.1 Hessel Hölderlin human language immanent critique infinite infinity inscription judgement Kant Kant's concept Kantian letter to Scholem limits linguistic surface mark medium metaphysics modern experience Moscow Naples nihilism number of possible object organisation origin painting perception philosophy of history philosophy of language poem Poetic political porosity present realised recognition reflection relationship rience space spatial spatio-temporal speculative concept speculative experience speculative philosophy spiritual Technical Reproducibility temporal themes tion tradition transcendental transformation transition translation urban experience Walter Benjamin writings