On Goethe contains the full range of Walter Benjamins reflections on the central figure in modern German culture. The writings in this volumenewly translated, fully annotated, and framed by an extensive introductiondisplay a variety of styles and cover a vast array of topics. The collection revolves around two strikingly different essays. Whereas "Goethes Elective Affinities" develops a theory of critique in which a work is illuminated wholly from within itself, an article Benjamin wrote on Goethe for the Soviet Encyclopedia represents his first largescale attempt to elaborate a historicalmaterialist methodology. The other thirty translations stand in similarly productive tension with one another. Some are concerned with concepts of beauty and categories of the aesthetic, others with the relation of art to politics and the status of "classical authors" in contemporary culture, and still others with what remains of humanistic traditions in the wake of their disappearance under fascist regimes and what synthesis is required for the construction of a historical object. The volume provides a glimpse into the laboratory of Benjamins thought, while granting readers a series of insights into the epochal phenomena that gather around the name "Goethe."

Binding: Paperback;382 pages; Publisher: Stanford University Press; Classification: DSA; Weight: 712 g; Dimensions: 228 x 152 x 25

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