Words of Light Theses on the Photography of History

Name: Words of Light Theses on the Photography of History
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ISBN: 9780691002682

ISBN-10: 0691002681

ISBN-13: 9780691002682

Edition: 1996

Authors: Eduardo Cadava

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Here Eduardo Cadava demonstrates that Walter Benjamin articulates his conception of history through the language of photography. Focusing on Benjamin's discussions of the flashes and images of history, he argues that the questions raised by this link between photography and history touch on issues that belong to the entire trajectory of his writings: the historical and political consequences of technology, the relation between reproduction and mimesis, images and history, remembering and forgetting, allegory and mourning, and visual and linguistic representation. The book establishes the photographic constellation of motifs and themes around which Benjamin organizes his texts and thereby…

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 8/23/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.13" long x 0.57" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Branka Arsi is associate professor of American literature at the University at Albany, SUNY. Cary Wolfe is Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English at Rice University. Stanley Cavell is the Walter M. Cabot Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Preface: Photagogos


History


Heliotropism


Origins


Mortification


Ghosts


Mimesis


Translations


Inscriptions


Lightning


Stars


Eternal Return


Reproducibility


Politics


Danger


Caesura


Traces


Nightdreams


Twilight


Awakening


Language


Matter


Reflections


Psyches


Shocks


Similarity


Petrification


Death


Epitaphs


Notes


Bibliography


Index