The Philology of Life: Walter Benjamin's Critical Program

by Kevin McLaughlin

Book Overview

The Philology of Life retraces the outlines of the philological project developed by Walter Benjamin in his early essays on H lderlin, the Romantics, and Goethe. This philological program, McLaughlin shows, provides the methodological key to Benjamin's work as a whole.

According to Benjamin, German literary history in the period roughly following the first World War was part of a wider "crisis of historical experience"--a life crisis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1531501699
• ISBN13: 9781531501693
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"