Description: Further DetailsTitle: More Than LifeCondition: NewSubtitle: Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin on ArtEAN: 9780810135772ISBN: 9780810135772Publisher: Northwestern University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/30/2017Description: More Than Life: Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin on Art is the first book to trace the philosophical relation between Georg Simmel and his one-time student Walter Benjamin, two of the most influential German thinkers of the twentieth century.Reading Simmel’s work, particularly his essays on Michelangelo, Rembrandt, and Rodin, alongside Benjamin’s concept of Unscheinbarkeit (inconspicuousness) and his writings on Charlie Chaplin, More Than Life demonstrates that both Simmel and Benjamin conceive of art as the creation of something entirely new rather than as a mimetic reproduction of a given. The two thinkers diverge in that Simmel emphasizes the presence of a continuous movement of life, whereas Benjamin highlights the priority of discontinuous, interruptive moments.With the aim of further elucidating Simmel and Benjamin’s ideas on art, Stéphane Symons presents a number of in-depth analyses of specific artworks that were not discussed by these authors. Through an insightful examination of both the conceptual affinities and the philosophical differences between Simmel and Benjamin , Symons reconstructs a crucial episode in twentieth-century debates on art and aesthetics.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 323gAuthor: Stephane SymonsGenre: Literary CriticismRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: More Than Life
Title: More Than Life
Subtitle: Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin on Art
EAN: 9780810135772
ISBN: 9780810135772
Release Date: 09/30/2017
Release Year: 2017
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Weight: 323g
Genre: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: More than Life : Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin on Art
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Subject: European / German, Criticism & Theory, Semiotics & Theory
Publication Year: 2017
Item Height: 0.7 in
Type: Textbook
Author: Stéphane Symons
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Art
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
