Description
Product ID: | 9780810135772 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Title: | More Than Life |
Subtitle: | Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin on Art |
Authors: | Author: Stephane Symons |
Page Count: | 216 |
Subjects: | Theory of art, Theory of art, Western philosophy from c 1800, Philosophy: aesthetics, Western philosophy, from c 1900 -, Philosophy: aesthetics |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Traces the philosophical relation between Georg Simmel and his one-time student Walter Benjamin, two of the most influential German thinkers of the twentieth century. Reading Simmel's work alongside Benjamin's concept of Unscheinbarkeit, More Than Life demonstrates that both Simmel and Benjamin conceive of art as the creation of something entirely new. |
Imprint Name: | Northwestern University Press |
Publisher Name: | Northwestern University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2017-09-30 |