Charles Bernstein’s Walter Benjamin, Among Other Things

2020 ◽  
pp. 205-226
Author(s):  
Peter Jaeger
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Poetry And Poetics ◽  
American Poet ◽  
Charles Bernstein ◽  
Arcades Project ◽  
Brian Ferneyhough

This hybrid creative-critical chapter considers the work of American poet and scholar Charles Bernstein. The chapter is modelled formally on Walter Benjamin’s The Arcades Project and its use of found text to construct a critical montage. Benjamin’s influence on Bernstein can be dated to the late 1970s; the chapter begins with Bernstein’s early interest in Benjamin, and then tracks that interest throughout his poetry and poetics. The chapter also includes a discussion of Bernstein’s 2004 opera libretto Shadowtime, written for the music of English composer Brian Ferneyhough. This opera is based on Benjamin’s life and work.

The Flaneur in the Parlor: Poe's “Philosophy of Furniture”

Prospects ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 103-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin J. Hayes
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Arcades Project ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The City

In one of the brief reflections Walter Benjamin composed as part of his Arcades Project, he personified the mid-19th-century domestic interior and made it and the flaneur onfidantes: “The space winks at the flaneur: What do you think may have gone on here?” (418–19). Benjamin typically filtered much of his thought through the figure of the flaneur, a recognizable urban type that emerged during the middle third of the 19th century, one who deliberately strolled the city streets and arcades and attempted to discern the meanings of what he observed. In the fullest scholarly treatment of the subject, Anke Gleber argued that the act of walking formed an essential part of the flaneur's observational process. Discussing such works as E. T. A. Hoffman's “The Cousin's Corner-Window,” however, Gleber did acknowledge a “paradoxical variant,” the stationary flaneur (13).

The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project

1991 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 691
Author(s):  
O.K. Werckmeister ◽  
Susan Buck-Morss
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Arcades Project

scholarly journals Editor's Note

boundary 2 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Paul A. Bové
Keyword(s):  
Poetry And Poetics ◽  
International Borders ◽  
Charles Bernstein ◽  
National Languages ◽  
Crossing Point

Abstract Charles Bernstein is a major crossing point for poetry and poetics. His art and discussion of poetry exploit and develop the vernaculars of language as they echo across time and international borders and national languages.

Historia y filosofía de la historia en el Benjamin tardío

1998 ◽  
pp. 10-15
Author(s):  
José Sazbón
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Philosophical Style ◽  
Arcades Project ◽  
Compare And Contrast

This paper deals with Walter Benjamin’s text largely known as "Theses on the Philosophy of History," and disputes its classification under that rubric. The circumstances of the elaboration and, more important, the explicit destination assigned to the reflections of the "Theses," require a consideration of its content and its relation to the historical studies the author was engaged in concerning the "prehistory" of modernity, especially of the remnants of the Parisian nineteenth century: the commonly known work "The Arcades Project." The relevance of a sameness in the language used in the two writings, particularly the resort to images, metaphors and the technique of montage, is stressed. It is argued that Benjamin’s philosophical style was always imagistic and that this fact is particularly relevant to the reflections on the concept of history. Philosophers and historians are both concerned by the historical research and concept construction of a thinker like the late Walter Benjamin. It is therefore desirable to compare and contrast their views.

The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project

1993 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 90
Author(s):  
Marcus Bullock ◽  
Susan Buck-Morss
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Arcades Project
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