{"product_id":"benjamins-passages-alexander-gelley-9780823262564","title":"Benjamin's Passages: Dreaming, Awakening","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn transposing the Freudian dream work from the individual subject to the collective, Walter Benjamin projected a \"macroscosmic journey\" of the individual sleeper to \"the dreaming collective, which, through the arcades, communes with its own insides.\" Benjamin's effort to transpose the dream phenomenon to the history of a collective remained fragmentary, though it underlies the principle of retrograde temporality, which, it is argued, is central to his idea of history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe \"passages\" are not just the Paris arcades: They refer also to Benjamin's effort to negotiate the labyrinth of his work and thought. Gelley works through many of Benjamin's later works and examines important critical questions: the interplay of aesthetics and politics, the genre of The Arcades Project, citation, language, messianism, aura, and the motifs of memory, the crowd, and awakening. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor Benjamin, memory is not only antiquarian; it functions as a solicitation, a call to a collectivity to come. Gelley reads this call in the motif of awakening, which conveys a qualified but crucial performative intention of Benjamin's undertaking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alexander Gelley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823262561\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823262564\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2015","brand":"Alexander Gelley","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086980985087,"sku":"9780823262564","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_787f2a83-e41e-454c-891e-1b35c85ea36e.jpg?v=1769097615","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/benjamins-passages-alexander-gelley-9780823262564","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}