How Long to Read Walter Benjamin and the Antinomies of Tradition

How Long Does it Take to Read Walter Benjamin and the Antinomies of Tradition?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 1 minute to read Walter Benjamin and the Antinomies of Tradition by John McCole

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Few modern thinkers have been as convinced of the necessity of recovering the past in order to redeem the present as Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). Benjamin at once mourned and celebrated what he took to be an inevitable liquidation of traditional culture, and his determination to think both of these attitudes through to their conclusions lends his work its peculiar honesty, along with its paradoxical, antinomial coherence. In a landmark interpretation of the whole of Benjamin's career, John McCole demonstrates a way of understanding Benjamin that both contextualizes and addresses the complexities and ambiguities of his texts. Working with Pierre Bourdieu's concept of the "intellectual field," McCole traces Benjamin's deep ambivalence about cultural tradition through the longterm project-an immanent critique of German idealist and romantic aesthetics-which unites his writings. McCole builds a sustained reading of Benjamin's intellectual development which sheds new light on the formative role of early influences—particularly his participation in the pre-World War I German youth movement and the orthodox discourse of German intellectual culture—and shows how Benjamin later extended the strategies he learned within these contexts during key encounters with Weimar modernism, surrealism, and the fiction of Proust. The fullest account of Benjamin available in English, this lucid and penetrating book will be welcomed by intellectual historians, literary theorists and critics, historians of German literature, and Continental philosophers.

How long is Walter Benjamin and the Antinomies of Tradition?

Walter Benjamin and the Antinomies of Tradition by John McCole is 349 pages long, and a total of 90,391 words.

This makes it 118% the length of the average book. It also has 110% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Walter Benjamin and the Antinomies of Tradition Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 13 minutes to read Walter Benjamin and the Antinomies of Tradition aloud.

What Reading Level is Walter Benjamin and the Antinomies of Tradition?

Walter Benjamin and the Antinomies of Tradition is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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