附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-278) and index.
Trauer and criticism -- Trauerspiel and melancholy subjectivity -- Melancholia and allegory -- Melancholia and modernity -- On the road to the object: surrealism as postmelancholy criticism -- The trash of history.
摘要:Through close readings of the Origin of the German Play of Mourning, the essays on surrealism and Baudelaire, and the unfinished Arcades Project, Pensky demonstrates that Benjamin's attempt to work through this "melancholy dialectics" lies at the core of his mature thought.
