FAVt005 Walter Benjamin

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2005
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Tomáš Dvořák, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Pavel Skopal, Ph.D.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
In the form of commented readings the course will introduce Benjamin`s project of the analysis of the prehistory of modernity. It will focus primarily on his works on modern culture Einbahnstrasse (1928) and Das Passagen-Werk (1927-1939). However, these will be situated both in the broader context of Benjamin`s corpus and the thought of his times (especially his relation to the Frankfurt School`s critical theory). It will also pay attention to the ways Benjamin`s work was received and interpreted throughout the twentieth century. Readings: Hannah Arendt, Introduction. Walter Benjamin 1892-1940. In Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections. New York: Schocken Books 1968, pp. 1-55. Andrew Benjamin (ed.), The Problems of Modernity: Adorno and Benjamin, London New York: Routledge, 1989. Walter Benjamin, Dílo a jeho zdroj. Praha: Odeon 1979. Walter Benjamin, Agesilaus Santander. Výbor z textů. Praha: Herrmann & synové, 1998. Walter Benjamin, Iluminácie. Bratislava: Kalligram 1999. Susan Buck-Morss, The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project. Cambridge London: The MIT Press, 1989. Adam Bžoch, Walter Benjamin a estetická moderna. Bratislava: Veda 1999. Paul de Man, Conclusions: Walter Benjamin`s The Task of the Translator. In Resistance to Theory. University of Minnesota Press 1986, pp. 73-105. David S. Ferris, The Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin. Cambridge Un. Press 2004. David Frisby, Fragments of Modernity. Theories of Modernity in the Work of Simmel, Kracauer and Benjamin, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1985. Jürgen Habermas, Walter Benjamin: Consciousness-Raising or Rescuing Critique. In Týž, Philosophical-Political Profiles. Cambridge London: The MIT Press 1983, pp. 129-163. Miriam Hansen, Benjamin, Cinema and Experience: The Blue Flower in the Land of Technology in: New German Critique, Winter 1987, Vol. , No. , pp. 179-224. Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination. A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950. Berkeley: University of California Press 1973. Pierre Missac, Passage de Walter Benjamin. Paris: Éditions du Seuil 1987. Matthew Rampley, The Remembrance of Things Past. On Aby M. Warburg and Walter Benjamin. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2000. Susan Sontag, Under the Sign of Saturn 1978. In A Susan Sontag Reader. London: Penguin Books 1982, pp. 385-401. Richard Wolin, Walter Benjamin. An Aesthetic of Redemption. Berkeley: University of California Press 1994.
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Povinně volitelný kurs. Atestaci student/ka získá pokud během semestru přednese dva krátké referáty (interpretace zadané povinné četby, čítanku v rozsahu cca 150 stran studenti obdrží na začátku semestru) a bude se semináře aktivně účastnit.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Note related to how often the course is taught: výuka proběhne 6.10., 20.10., 3.11., 1.12. a 15.12. vždy 10.00 - 13.15 v pracovně.
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