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The Politics of Imagination

Benjamin, Kracauer, Kluge
DOI: 10.14361/9783839406816
  • Forrest,  Tara
    Forrest, Tara

Abstract

This book explores Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer and Alexander Kluge's analyses of the role that a rejuvenation in the capacity for imagination can play in encouraging us to reconceive the possibilities of the past, the present, and the future outside of the parameters of the status quo. The concept of imagination to which the title of the book refers is not a strictly defined, stable concept, but rather a term which is employed to refer to a capacity that facilitates both an active, creative relationship to one's environment, and a process of mediation between the outside world and one's own experiences and memories.
Through a detailed analysis of their engagements with subjects that span a broad range of historical and thematic contexts (including topics as diverse as literature, children's play, film, photography, history, and television) the book charts the extent to which the concept of imagination plays a central role in Benjamin, Kracauer, and Kluge's explorations of a mode of perception and experience which could serve as a catalyst for the creation and sustenance of a desire for a different kind of future.

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01. September 2015
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Introduction
Tara Forrest
Seiten: 9 - 18
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Part 1: Walter Benjamin

Chapter 1: Benjamin, Proust and the Rejuvenating Powers of Memory
Tara Forrest
Seiten: 21 - 42
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Chapter 2: The Politics of Aura and Imagination in Benjamin's Writings on Hashish
Tara Forrest
Seiten: 43 - 64
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Chapter 3: "Reproducibility - Distraction - Politicization"
Tara Forrest
Seiten: 65 - 86
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Part 2: Siegfried Kracauer

Chapter 4: "Film as the Discoverer of the Marvels of Everyday Life": Kracauer and the Promise of Realist Cinema
Tara Forrest
Seiten: 89 - 106
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Chapter 5: On the Task of a Realist Historiography in Kracauer's History: The Last Things Before the Last
Tara Forrest
Seiten: 107 - 124
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Part 3: Alexander Kluge

Chapter 6: From History's Rubble: Kluge on Film, History, and Politics
Tara Forrest
Seiten: 127 - 148
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Chapter 7: Raw Materials for the Imagination: Kluge's Work for Television
Tara Forrest
Seiten: 149 - 168
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Conclusion
Tara Forrest
Seiten: 169 - 174
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Bibliography
Tara Forrest
Seiten: 175 - 190
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Other Works Cited
Tara Forrest
Seiten: 191 - 192
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Acknowledgements
Tara Forrest
Seiten: 193 - 194
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eISBN PDF
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Seitenumfang
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transcript Verlag
Schlagworte
Movie, Media, Culture, Literature, Imagination, Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, Alexander Kluge, Aesthetics, Film, Media Theory, Media Philosophy, Cultural Theory, Media Studies,

Während die Verbindung von Benjamin und Kluge geläufig ist, so wird Kracauers spätes Werk zur Film- und Geschichtstheorie recht selten überhaupt wahrgenommen. Ihn mit Kluge und Benjamin zu verbinden, ist Forrest in ihrer Arbeit überzeugend gelungen.

2009-08-09Olaf Berg, fsk Hamburg, 09.08.2009

Beyond its immediate appeal to those interested in film and cultural theory will [this book] contribute well to the increasing interest in emergent studies, the interactions between literature, art, science and science philosophy.

2008-09-01Lisa McDonald, cultural studies review, 14/2, 9 (2008)

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