عروسک و کوتوله: مقالاتی در باب فلسفه زبان و فلسفه تاریخ

by Walter Benjamin, مراد فرهادپور (Translator), امید مهرگان (Translator)

زبان و تاریخ: مقولات زبانی و تاریخی در تفکر بنیامین/ جورجو آگامبن
در باب زبان و زبان بشری
رسالت مترجم
قطعه‌ی الاهیاتی-سیاسی
در باب نظریه‌ی شناخت، نظریه‌ی پیشرفت (از پروژه‌ی پاساژها)‏
تزهایی درباره‌ی مفهوم تاریخ
الهیات واژگون/ نوربرت بولتس و ویلم فان‌راین

Genres: Philosophy, German Literature, History

184 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1992

About the author

Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic, media theorist, and essayist. An eclectic thinker who combined elements of German idealism, Romanticism, Western Marxism, Jewish mysticism, and neo-Kantianism, Benjamin made influential contributions to aesthetic theory, literary criticism, and historical materialism. He was associated with the Frankfurt School and also maintained formative friendships with thinkers such as playwright Bertolt Brecht and Kabbalah scholar Gershom Scholem. He was related to German political theorist and philosopher Hannah Arendt through her first marriage to Benjamin's cousin Günther Anders, though the friendship between Arendt and Benjamin outlasted her marriage to Anders. Both Arendt and Anders were students of Martin Heidegger, whom Benjamin considered a nemesis.
Among Benjamin's best known works are the essays "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1935) and "Theses on the Philosophy of History" (1940). His major work as a literary critic included essays on Charles Baudelaire, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Franz Kafka, Karl Kraus, Nikolai Leskov, Marcel Proust, Robert Walser, Trauerspiel and translation theory. He also made major translations into German of the Tableaux Parisiens section of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal and parts of Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu.
Of the hidden principle organizing Walter Benjamin's thought Scholem wrote unequivocally that "Benjamin was a philosopher", while his younger colleagues Arendt and Theodor W. Adorno contend that he was "not a philosopher". Scholem remarked "The peculiar aura of authority emanating from his work tended to incite contradiction". Benjamin himself considered his research to be theological, though he eschewed all recourse to traditionally metaphysical sources of transcendentally revealed authority.
In 1940, at the age of 48, Benjamin died by suicide at Portbou on the French Spanish border while attempting to escape the advance of the Third Reich. Though popular acclaim eluded him during his life, the decades following his death won his work posthumous renown.

Reviews

[Amir ali]

در مقمه‌ي اين کتاب كه درباره‌ي پاره‌اي از مضمون‌هاي تفكر "والتر بنيامين"است، چنين خاطرنشان مي‌شود كه تفكر بنيامين با تاًمل در باب مساًله‌ي زبان آغاز مي‌شود و با "تزهايي درباره‌ي مفهوم تاريخ" به پايان مي‌رسد. (اين دو مضمون در تمام طول حيات فكري وي به شكلي درهم تنيده حضور داشته است.) مطالب بعدي كتاب نيز شامل مقالاتي در فلسفه‌ي زبان و فلسفه‌ي تاريخ است. اين مقالات عبارت‌اند از: "زبان و تاريخ: مقولات زباني و تاريخي در تفكر بنيامين/ جورجو آگامين" درباب نظريه‌ي شناخت، نظريه‌ي پيشرفت (تومار N، پاساژها)، "قطعه‌ي الهياتي سياسي"، "تزهايي درباره‌ي مفهوم تاريخ" (كه جملگي نوشته‌ي والتر بنيامين است) و "الهيات واژگون/ نوربرتبولتس و ويلم فان‌راين" گفتني است مضمون دو مقاله‌ي "درباب زبان و زبان بشري" و "رسالت مترجم" درباره‌ي زبان و گوياي قسمت اوليه‌ي تفكر بنيامين و تاًثيرپذيري او از الهيات و عرفات يهودي است. ("رسالت مترجم" در اصل مقدمه‌اي است كه بنيامين بر ترجمه‌هايش از اشعار بودلي نوشته بود). قطعه‌ي رمز آميز الهياتي- سياسي نيز محصول همين سال‌هاست.