Walter Benjamin and History

by Andrew Benjamin, Andrew Benjamin (Editor)

Overview

This book offers nine principles for brain based approaches to accelerating learning, improving motivation and raising achievement. It offers the reader a coherent structure and describes guaranteed ways to motivate learners esteem-building tools for schools, teachers and parents how to access and teach to different types of intelligence different ways in which schools can make Accelerated Learning work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826467461
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/01/2006
Series:	Walter Benjamin Studies
Edition description:	ANN
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.57(d)

About the Author

Andrew Benjamin is Professor of Critical Theory and Philosophical Aesthetics at Monash University, Australia. His previous publications include: Writing Art and Architecture(Re: press, 2010) Of Jews and Animals (Edinburgh University Press, 2010), Style and Time: Essays on the Politics of Appearance (Northwestern UP, 2006), Disclosing Spaces: On Painting (Clinamen Press, 2004), Philosophy's Literature (Clinamen Press, 2001) and Present Hope: Philosophy, Aesthetics, Judaism (Routledge, 1997). He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2005.

Table of Contents

AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction, Andrew Benjamin (Monash University, Australia)1. The Supposition of the Aura: The Now, The Then, and Modernity, Georges Didi-Huberman 2. The Shortness of History or, Photography In Nuce: Benjamin's Attenuation of the Negative, David Ferris(University of Colorado, USA)3. 'Now': Walter Benjamin and Historical Time, Werner Hamacher (Goethe University, Germany)4. Down the K. Hole: Walter Benjamin's Destructive Landsurveying of History, Stephanie Polsky (Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK)5. Between Melancholia and Fetishism: Benjamin's Losses, Rebecca Comay (Univeristy of Toronto, Canada)6. Trembling Contours: Kierkegaard - Benjamin - Brecht, Rainer Nagele (John Hopkins University, USA)7. The Subject of History: Benjamin's facies hypocritica, Dimitris Vardoulakis (Monash University, Australia)8. Tradition as Injunction: Benjamin and the Critique of Historicisms, Philippe Simay (Ecole d'Architecture, Paris-Belleville)9. Boredom and Distraction: The Moods of Modernity, Andrew Benjamin (Monash University, Australia)10. Walter Benjamin's Interior History, Charles Rice (University of New South Wales, Australia)11. What is the Matter with Architecture History?, Gevork Hartoonian (University of Canberra, Australia)12. Messianic Epistemology: Thesis XV, Robert Gibbs (University of Toronto, Canada) 13. Benjamin and the History of Religion, Howard Caygill (Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK)Contributors