9780804799041-0804799040-Impossible Modernism: T. S. Eliot, Walter Benjamin, and the Critique of Historical Reason

Impossible Modernism: T. S. Eliot, Walter Benjamin, and the Critique of Historical Reason

ISBN-13: 9780804799041
ISBN-10: 0804799040
Edition: 1
Author: Robert S. Lehman
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Format: Hardcover 272 pages
Category: Philosophy
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ISBN-13: 9780804799041
ISBN-10: 0804799040
Edition: 1
Author: Robert S. Lehman
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Format: Hardcover 272 pages
Category: Philosophy

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Impossible Modernism: T. S. Eliot, Walter Benjamin, and the Critique of Historical Reason (ISBN-13: 9780804799041 and ISBN-10: 0804799040), written by authors Robert S. Lehman, was published by Stanford University Press in 2016. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other Philosophy books. You can easily purchase or rent Impossible Modernism: T. S. Eliot, Walter Benjamin, and the Critique of Historical Reason (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Philosophy books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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Impossible Modernism reads the writings of German philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) and Anglo-American poet and critic T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) to examine the relationship between literary and historical form during the modernist period. It focuses particularly on how they both resisted the forms of narration established by nineteenth-century academic historians and turned instead to traditional literary devices―lyric, satire, anecdote, and allegory―to reimagine the forms that historical representation might take. Tracing the fraught relationship between poetry and history back to Aristotle's Poetics and forward to Nietzsche's Untimely Meditations, Robert S. Lehman establishes the coordinates of the intellectual-historical problem that Eliot and Benjamin inherited and offers an analysis of how they grappled with this legacy in their major works.

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