Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism

Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism takes its title and point of departure from Walter BenjaminGCOs concept of the historical constellation, which puts both GCGBPcontemporaryGC and GCGBPromanticismGC in play as period designations and critical paradigms. Featuring fascinating and diverse contributions by an international roster of distinguished scholars working in and out of romanticismGCofrom deconstruction to new historicism, from queer theory to postcolonial studies, from visual culture to biopoliticsGCothis volume makes good on a central tenet of BenjaminGCOs conception of history: These critics GCGBPgrasp the constellationGC into which our GCGBPown era has formed with a definite earlier one.GC Each of these essays approaches romanticism as a decisive and unexpired thought experiment that makes demands on and poses questions for our own time: What is the unlived of a contemporary romanticism? What has romanticismGCOs singular untimeliness bequeathed to futurity? What is romanticismGCOs contemporary GCGBPredemption valueGC for painting and politics, philosophy and film?