More Than Life: Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin on Art
Autor Stéphane Symonsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 sep 2017
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.
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780810135772
ISBN-10: 0810135779
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 18 black and white images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press
ISBN-10: 0810135779
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 18 black and white images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press
Notă biografică
STÉPHANE SYMONS is an associate professor at the Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven, in Leuven, Belgium.
Cuprins
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 4
Introduction 6
Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin
“The Incapability of Any Actual Pause”
PART 1. GEORG SIMMEL
1. Michelangelo 30
Life and the Fate of Mankind
2. Rembrandt 41
Re-producing the Soulful Life of the Sitter as a Portrait
3. Auguste Rodin 61
Re-experiencing One’s Deepest Life in the Sphere of Art
PART 2. WALTER BENJAMIN
Introduction 74
Walter Benjamin and Georg Simmel
“A Duel that is the Creative Process Itself”
4. Unscheinbarkeit 85
Depersonalization Set in an Incomparably Productive Context
5. Charlie Chaplin 108
Man Would Not Be the Noblest on Earth If He Were Not Too Noble For It
Two Concluding Remarks 135
“Always Lagging Half a Step Behind”
BIBLIOGRAPHY 142
Introduction 6
Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin
“The Incapability of Any Actual Pause”
PART 1. GEORG SIMMEL
1. Michelangelo 30
Life and the Fate of Mankind
2. Rembrandt 41
Re-producing the Soulful Life of the Sitter as a Portrait
3. Auguste Rodin 61
Re-experiencing One’s Deepest Life in the Sphere of Art
PART 2. WALTER BENJAMIN
Introduction 74
Walter Benjamin and Georg Simmel
“A Duel that is the Creative Process Itself”
4. Unscheinbarkeit 85
Depersonalization Set in an Incomparably Productive Context
5. Charlie Chaplin 108
Man Would Not Be the Noblest on Earth If He Were Not Too Noble For It
Two Concluding Remarks 135
“Always Lagging Half a Step Behind”
BIBLIOGRAPHY 142
Descriere
In More Than Life: Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin on Art, Stéphane Symons sets up a posthumous dialogue between Georg Simmel and his student Walter Benjamin through a fascinating examination of their ideas about art.