Catherine Marshall
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780198846499
- eISBN:
- 9780191881596
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198846499.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
Twelve out of sixty-two members of the Metaphysical Society were active editors of well-known periodicals or weeklies throughout the eleven years of existence of the Society. Their editorial skills ...
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Twelve out of sixty-two members of the Metaphysical Society were active editors of well-known periodicals or weeklies throughout the eleven years of existence of the Society. Their editorial skills and choices all reveal the complex links between the Metaphysicians, the views they defended, and the periodicals in which they expressed their opinions. These editors published forty-four out of the ninety-five papers given by the members. In so doing, they contributed to some of the changes which were taking place in journalism by finding new ways of generating creative responses to main topics, and they enriched printed controversies, thereby targeting a wider middle-class audience throughout the 1870s. This chapter argues that the Society became—for its editors and other regular contributors—another kind of hub for cooperation that intersected with their editorial interests and that, in so doing, they were the great amplifiers of the debates of the Society in the 1870s.Less
Twelve out of sixty-two members of the Metaphysical Society were active editors of well-known periodicals or weeklies throughout the eleven years of existence of the Society. Their editorial skills and choices all reveal the complex links between the Metaphysicians, the views they defended, and the periodicals in which they expressed their opinions. These editors published forty-four out of the ninety-five papers given by the members. In so doing, they contributed to some of the changes which were taking place in journalism by finding new ways of generating creative responses to main topics, and they enriched printed controversies, thereby targeting a wider middle-class audience throughout the 1870s. This chapter argues that the Society became—for its editors and other regular contributors—another kind of hub for cooperation that intersected with their editorial interests and that, in so doing, they were the great amplifiers of the debates of the Society in the 1870s.
Alexander Gelley
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780823262564
- eISBN:
- 9780823266562
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823262564.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
In transposing the Freudian dream work from the individual subject to the collective, Walter Benjamin projected a “macroscosmic journey” of the individual sleeper to “the dreaming collective, which, ...
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In transposing the Freudian dream work from the individual subject to the collective, Walter Benjamin projected a “macroscosmic journey” of the individual sleeper to “the dreaming collective, which, through the arcades, communes with its own insides.” This book examines the figurative status of sleeping and awakening within the allegorical structure of The Arcades Project and in Benjamin’s thought more broadly. For Benjamin, memory is not antiquarian: it functions as a solicitation, a call to a collectivity to come. The motif of awakening involves a qualified but crucial performative intention that was central to Benjamin’s undertaking. Benjamin’s passages are not just the Paris arcades: they refer also to Benjamin’s effort to negotiate the labyrinth of his writings. In tracing these corridors of thought, the book treats many of Benjamin’s most important works and examines important critical questions: the interplay of aesthetics and politics, the genre of The Arcades Project, citation, language, messianism, aura and image, and the motifs of memory, the crowd, and awakening.Less
In transposing the Freudian dream work from the individual subject to the collective, Walter Benjamin projected a “macroscosmic journey” of the individual sleeper to “the dreaming collective, which, through the arcades, communes with its own insides.” This book examines the figurative status of sleeping and awakening within the allegorical structure of The Arcades Project and in Benjamin’s thought more broadly. For Benjamin, memory is not antiquarian: it functions as a solicitation, a call to a collectivity to come. The motif of awakening involves a qualified but crucial performative intention that was central to Benjamin’s undertaking. Benjamin’s passages are not just the Paris arcades: they refer also to Benjamin’s effort to negotiate the labyrinth of his writings. In tracing these corridors of thought, the book treats many of Benjamin’s most important works and examines important critical questions: the interplay of aesthetics and politics, the genre of The Arcades Project, citation, language, messianism, aura and image, and the motifs of memory, the crowd, and awakening.
