Lecture/ Reading on Walter Benjamin

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Uwe Steiner in conversation with Karen Feldman

The event is part of a series of events on Walter Benjamin (November 5-9).

Content:
"The Task of the Philologist" - On Walter Benjamin’s Life and Afterlife in Posthumous Editions of His Work.

Although his articles and essays appeared in leading journals and newspapers of the Weimar Republic, such as the Literarische Welt and the Frankfurter Zeitung, Benjamin was not really known as an author during his lifetime. In his posthumous ascendancy to the position of a leading figure in Western academia, the publications of his writings played no small role. In the early stages of the reception the editor’s choice of what to publish soon became the focus of heated political debates. Nowadays, the predominant academic philological-reception is no longer concerned with politics; but editorial decisions still remain controversial and, as the lecture will discuss with regards to the new German edition of Benjamin’s dissertation, still have a considerable impact on our reading.

Uwe Steiner is the Department Chair and Professor of German Studies at Rice University. His areas of interest include philosophical thought and poetical representation in German literature since 1700 especially on Walter Benjamin and early twentieth-century philosophy. He is the author of numerous publications including “Walter Benjamin: An Introduction to His Work and Thought”.



Karen Feldman teaches in the Department of German at the University of California, Berkeley. Her current research concerns aesthetics and historiography from Kant to Benjamin. Prof. Feldman spent 2010-2011 in Berlin on a grant with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She was a Fulbright scholar at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel and in Berlin (1998-2000).

For more information to the whole series click here:
http://www.hauntedreflections.net

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