Download full text
(3.364Mb)
Citation Suggestion
Please use the following Persistent Identifier (PID) to cite this document:
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-69990-9
Exports for your reference manager
The Politics of Imagination: Benjamin, Kracauer, Kluge
[monograph]
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 c... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
Benjamin, W.; Kracauer, S.; perception; film; photography; literature; playing; behavior; child
Classification
General Psychology
Free Keywords
Aesthetics; Alexander Kluge; Cultural Theory; Culture; Film; Imagination; Literature; Media; Media Philosophy; Media Studies; Media Theory; Movie; Siegfried Kracauer; Walter Benjamin
Document language
English
Publication Year
2007
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
198 p.
Series
Kultur- und Medientheorie
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839406816
ISBN
978-3-8394-0681-6
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0