{"product_id":"benjamins-passages-dreaming-awakening-paperback","title":"Benjamin's Passages: Dreaming, Awakening - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlexander Gelley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn transposing the Freudian dream work from the individual subject to the collective, Walter Benjamin projected a \"macroscosmic journey\" of the individual sleeper to \"the dreaming collective, which, through the arcades, communes with its own insides.\" Benjamin's effort to transpose the dream phenomenon to the history of a collective remained fragmentary, though it underlies the principle of retrograde temporality, which, it is argued, is central to his idea of history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe \"passages\" are not just the Paris arcades: They refer also to Benjamin's effort to negotiate the labyrinth of his work and thought. Gelley works through many of Benjamin's later works and examines important critical questions: the interplay of aesthetics and politics, the genre of The Arcades Project, citation, language, messianism, aura, and the motifs of memory, the crowd, and awakening. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor Benjamin, memory is not only antiquarian; it functions as a solicitation, a call to a collectivity to come. Gelley reads this call in the motif of awakening, which conveys a qualified but crucial performative intention of Benjamin's undertaking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlexander Gelley \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, emeritus, at the University of California, Irvine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 15, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53724159443308,"sku":"9780823262571","price":61.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0989\/3019\/6844\/files\/c0db5aa7effce2df179d1bb770ac2ea0.webp?v=1778217652","url":"https:\/\/pattansenterprise.com\/products\/benjamins-passages-dreaming-awakening-paperback","provider":"Pattansenterprise","version":"1.0","type":"link"}