In Max Pensky’s “The Trash of History,” taken from the larger Melancholy Dialectics: Walter Benjamin and the Play of Mourning, Walter Benjamin’s use of the objective dialectical image is viewed in juxtaposition–and unwanted collaboration -with subjective allegorical imagery. The dialectical image, where past and present interact with one another, is Benjamin’s method and [...]
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Max Pensky : The Trash of History
Posted in Adorno, Benjamin, critical theory, historical materialism, historicism, history, melancholy, object, subject on April 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Max Pensky: Melancholia and Allegory
Posted in Benjamin, critical theory, melancholy, subject on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Everything is a composite of smaller group of factors, therefore everything is connected. This is why Benjamin argues that art and science must find a way to coexist. But, as the author points out, these claims also embody an aspect of hypocrisy. As he states, “the claim that the Trauerspiel study ‘is’ allegorical is as [...]
Gillian Rose : The Melancholy Science
Posted in critical theory, melancholy, subject on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Gillian Rose’s first published work, The Melancholy Science is a critical exploration of Adorno’s thought. The self-titled last chapter of the book seeks to outline the progression of complications Adorno’s social philosophy encounters and his emerging response. She establishes his social diagnosis as “approached as the immanent question of ‘the conceptual mediation’ of social reality [...]
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