Unpacking Benjamin

 

This is a note on Walter Benjamin's essay on collecting, "Unpacking My Library" (orig. published in German in 1931). Benjamin's reflections on collecting are analyzed with reference to Modernist themes in Baudelaire and Proust, and to the Modernist concern with memory in the structuring of the self. The essay is held to be a half-ironic self-portrait showing some tensions or uncertainties in Benjamin's class positioning and allegiances. 

 

Unpacking Benjamin

http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M64V9D

Author(s):

José Angel García Landa (see profile)

Date:

2018

Group(s):

Narrative theory and Narratology, Philosophy

Subject(s):

Criticism, Critical theory, Deconstruction, Collecting

Item Type:

Online publication

Tag(s):

Walter Benjamin, Ideology Critique

 

Notes:

Written 1988.

_____. "Unpacking Benjamin." (Typescript, Brown University, 1988). Online at Net Sight de José Angel García Landa.* 
           http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/publicaciones/benjamin.html

         2013
         https://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2018/02/unpacking-benjamin.html
         2019

_____. "Unpacking Benjamin." Social Science Research Network 19 July 2013.*

         http://ssrn.com/abstract=2294964

         2013

         Cultural Anthropology eJournal 19 July 2013.*

         http://www.ssrn.com/link/Cultural-Anthropology.html

         2013

         Literary Theory & Criticism eJournal 19 July 2013.*

         http://www.ssrn.com/link/Cultural-Anthropology.html

         2013

         History of Western Philosophy eJournal 19 July 2013.*

         http://www.ssrn.com/link/History-of-Western-Philosophy.html

         2013

         Continental Philosophy eJournal 19 July 2013.*

         http://www.ssrn.com/link/Continental-Philosophy.html

2013

_____. "Unpacking Benjamin." Academia 27 Aug. 2013.*

http://www.academia.edu/4336043/

2013

_____. "Unpacking Benjamin." ResearchGate 21 May 2014.*

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262454664

2014

_____. "Unpacking Benjamin." Humanities Commons 19 Feb. 2018.*

         https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:18267/

         http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M64V9D

         2018

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