Constellations of Reading: Walter Benjamin in Figures of Actuality

By: Salzani, Carlo

How to read Walter Benjamin today? This book argues that the proper way is through an approach which recognizes and respects his own peculiar theorization of the act of reading and the politics of interpretation that this entails. The approach must be figural , that is, focused on images, and driven by the notion of actualization . Figural reading, in the very sui generis Benjaminian way, understands figures as constellations , whereby an image of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3039118609
• ISBN13: 9783039118601
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"