Walter Benjamins First Philosophy - 9780367613242

Taylor & Francis

Walter Benjamins First PhilosophyExperience, Ephemerality and Truth\nAuthor(s): Nathan Ross\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367613242, 978-0367613242\nSynopsis\nThis book provides a study of Walter Benjamins first philosophy in two senses: it focuses on his early philosophy as a source of insight into his later works, and it explores his thinking about the nature of truth, method, experience, the relation of body and mind, and the limits of human knowledge.\n\nWhile most attention is paid to Benjamins later works, his writings from roughly [tel] explore philosophical themes and develop a critical method. This book argues that this early work founds a series of original and lasting questions and insights. Benjamin understands experience as a broken continuum of diverse forms of spiritual expression, each of which is ephemeral. This leads Benjamin to a series of thought figures: the notion of language as a medium .