{"product_id":"the-philology-of-life-walter-benjamins-critical-program-hardback-9781531501686","title":"The Philology of Life; Walter Benjamin's Critical Program (Hardback) 9781531501686","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Philology of Life\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWalter Benjamin's Critical Program\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKevin McLaughlin (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781531501686\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 17 January 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Philology of Life\u003c\/i\u003e retraces the outlines of the philological project developed by Walter Benjamin in his early essays on Hölderlin, the Romantics, and Goethe. This philological program, McLaughlin shows, provides the methodological key to Benjamin's work as a whole. \u003cbr\u003e According to Benjamin, German literary history in the period roughly following the first World War was part of a wider \"crisis of historical experience\"—a life crisis to which \u003ci\u003eLebensphilosophie\u003c\/i\u003e (philosophy of life) had instructively but insufficiently responded. Benjamin's literary critical struggle during these years consisted in developing a philology of literary historical experience and of life that is rooted in an encounter with a written image.\u003cbr\u003e The fundamental importance of this \"philological\" method in Benjamin's work seems not to have been recognized by his contemporary readers, including Theodor Adorno who considered the approach to be lacking in dialectical rigor. This facet of Benjamin's work was also elided in the postwar publications of his writings, both in German and English. In recent decades, the publication of a wider range of Benjamin's writings has made it possible to retrace the outlines of a distinctive philological project that starts to develop in his early literary criticism and that extends into the late studies of Baudelaire and Paris. By bringing this innovative method to light this study proposes \"the philology of life\" as the key to the critical program of one of the most influential intellectual figures in the humanities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNote on Abbreviations \u003c\/i\u003e  ix\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e: The Philology of Life   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1. \u003c\/b\u003e\"Two Poems by Friedrich Hölderlin\"   15\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2.\u003c\/b\u003e The Concept of Criticism in German Romanticism   42\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3. \u003c\/b\u003e\"Goethe's Elective Affinities\"   68\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eCoda\u003c\/b\u003e: The Afterlife of Philology   109\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/i\u003e  127\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAppendix: Sources for Benjamin's \"Goethe's Elective Affinities\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e(1924–25) \u003c\/i\u003e  129\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes \u003c\/i\u003e  131\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography \u003c\/i\u003e  179\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex \u003c\/i\u003e  189\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52619263475992,"sku":"9781531501686","price":71.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-philology-of-life-walter-benjamins-critical-program-hardback-9781531501686","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}