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Melancholy dialectics

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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 …

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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.

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"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 …"

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