Benjamin, Adorno, and the Experience of Literature

Corey McCall, Nathan Ross

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English

Routledge
30 September 2020

Literary theory; Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Philosophy: aesthetics

Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy

This collection features original essays that examine Walter Benjamin’s and Theodor Adorno’s essays and correspondence on literature. Taken together, the essays present the view that these two monumental figures of 20th-century philosophy were not simply philosophers who wrote about literature, but that they developed their philosophies in and through their encounters with literature.

Benjamin, Adorno, and the Experience of Literature is divided into three thematic sections. The first section contains essays that directly demonstrate the ways in which literature enriched the thinking of Benjamin and Adorno. It explores themes that are recognized to be central to their thinking—mimesis, the critique of historical progress, and the loss and recovery of experience—through their readings of literary authors such as Baudelaire, Beckett, and Proust. The second section continues the trajectory of the first by bringing together four essays on Benjamin’s and Adorno’s reading of Kafka, whose work helped them develop a distinctive critique of and response to capitalism. The third and final section focuses more intently on the question of what it means to gain authentically critical insight into a literary work. The essays examine Benjamin’s response to specific figures, including Georg Büchner, Robert Walser, and Julien Green, whose work he sees as neglected, undigested, or misunderstood.

This book offers a unique examination of two pivotal 20th-century philosophers through the lens of their shared experiences with literature. It will appeal to a wide range of scholars across philosophy, literature, and German studies.

Edited by: Corey McCall, Nathan Ross
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367666286
ISBN 10: 0367666286
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
Pages: 258
Publication Date: 30 September 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Corey McCall and Nathan Ross Part I. Benjamin and Adorno: Literary Themes and Philosophical Debates 1. Against the Reification of History: Benjamin and Adorno on Baudelaire Corey McCall 2. Theatrum Philosophicum: Thinking Literature and Politics with Walter Benjamin Oscar Guardiola-Rivera 3. Adorno and Beckett: Aesthetic Mimēsis and The Language of ‘The New’ Marcia Morgan 4. Abysmal Humanity: Anthropological Materialism in Georg Büchner and Walter Benjamin Cat Moir Part II. Kafka: ‘Fairy Tales for Dialecticians’ 5. Breaking the Mythic Organization of Life: On Literary Form and Political Tendency in Benjamin’s Reading of Kafka Nathan Ross 6. The Virtue or Power of the Useless: Benjamin and Adorno on Kafka Idit Dobbs-Weinstein 7. Discovering the Truth of Sancho Panza: The Meaning of Comedy in Adorno’s and Benjamin’s Differing Readings of Don Quixote Meanchem Feuer Part III. Proust: Recovering Experience 8. The Proustian Roots of Adorno’s Idea of Social Criticism Roger Foster 9. Seeing-In, Seeing-Through: Adorno and the Platonism of Proust Owen Hulatt Part IV: From Hölderlin to Walser: Poetic Afterlives 10. Hölderlin’s Aesthetic Critique of Modernity Michael J. Thompson 11. Benjamin on Hölderlin’s Poetic Cosmos Hyun Höchsmann 12. Wo bist Du Nachdenkliches! Poetic Determinability in Hölderlin and Walser Stéphane Symons 13. Robert Walser as an Undigested Literary Phenomenon Jeffrey A. Bernstein

Corey McCall is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Elmira College, USA Nathan Ross is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oklahoma City University, USA