Name: Mediaciones (in Spanish)
Price: 832.00 TWD
Availability: InStock
Author: Walter Benjamin
ISBN: 9788416938711

Type

Physical Book

Author

Walter Benjamin

Jenaro Talens

Publisher

Malpaso Editorial

Year

2017

Language

Spanish

Pages

128

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9788416938711

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "Mediaciones (in Spanish)"

Mediaciones es una colección de fragmentos de Walter Benjamin cuyo objetivo es iluminar un rincón particular de su obra: aquel en el que habitan las consideraciones acerca de la representación y la mediación. En el pensamiento de Benjamin, no es en el supuesto binomio forma/contenido donde se inscriben las ideas o los problemas importantes del discurso, artístico o no, sino en el dispositivo retórico que parece servir tan sólo de soporte a aquellos. La selección de pasajes de Mediaciones no pretende ser exhaustiva pero sí significativa. De ella no sólo se desprenden apreciaciones brillantes del autor sobre los asuntos tratados. Más allá del tema concreto la propia escritura de Benjamin es, en sentido estricto y literal, teoría. This collection of fragments from Walter Benjamin shed light on a particular area of his work, that concerned with representation and mediation. For Benjamin, it's not in the binary of form and content that important ideas or problems are inscribed, but rather in the rhetorical devices that appear to play a merely supporting role.

Walter Benjamin

(Author)

View Author's Page

Walter Benjamin was a prominent philosopher, literary critic, and art and history theorist born in Berlin, Germany. His work and critical thinking have had a profound influence on 20th century cultural studies.
Benjamin was born into a wealthy Jewish family and grew up in an intellectually stimulating environment. From an early age, he showed an interest in literature, music, and art.
In the 1920s, after serving in the German army during World War I, he joined the Frankfurt School, a circle of German intellectuals and social critics interested in transforming Marxist ideas. There, he met other thinkers like Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer who were major influences on his work and worldview.
Throughout his life, Benjamin was also deeply interested in politics and social issues. During the years of the Weimar Republic, he actively participated in the cultural and literary field. However, the rise of Nazism to power in 1933 forced him to leave Germany. He first went into exile in Paris and after the French occupation, Benjamin tried to escape to Spain to embark towards the United States, but was detained at the French-Spanish border. Faced with the imminent threat of being handed over to the German authorities, the author decided to end his life.

See less