Matthew Charles is a senior lecturer in cultural and critical theory at the University of Westminster, UK. He is the co-author of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Walter Benjamin and several articles and chapters on critical theory and education.

• Introduction: Perverse Antiques 1. Criticism, Transdisciplinarity and Transcriticism: Walter Benjamin and the Kantian Traditioni. Literary Criticism and Aesthetic Judgementii. Transcriticism and Non-Synthetic Judgementiii. Contingent Criticism and Teleological J­­udgement2. Weak Messianism in German Romanticismi. Literary Criticism as Messianic Reflectionii. Weak Messianism: Formalism, Affirmationism, Singularityiii. Aestheticentricism and Problems of the Romantic Imagination 3. Strong Aesthetics in Goethe’s Tender Empiricismi. Aesthetics of Science: Critique of Sensibilityii. Teleological Pessimism: Ephemerality and Multiplicity4. Pure Content: the Ephemerality of Colouri. Goethe’s Colour Theory: Na­­tureii. Benjamin’s Colour Theory: Phantasyiii. Expressionist Colour (I): Grünewald and Maréesiv. Expressionist Colour (II): Klee and Turner5. Pure Expression: the Violence of Criticismi. Translating the Pure Wordii. Expressionist Language (I): Goethe’s Elective Affinitiesiii. Expressionist Language (II): T. E. Hulme’s Imagist poetry6. Pure History: the Untimeliness of Technologyi. Goethe’s Untimeliness: Nietzsche, Koselleck and Benjaminii. Expressionist Technology (I): Klages, Marx and the Soviet Avant-Gardeiii. Expressionist Technology (II): Cinematic Modernism in Goethe’s FaustAfterword: All that is ephemeral… becomes an Event

Modernism Between Benjamin and Goethe is an exhilarating assembling of voices. At its core is Goethe speaking across a century to Benjamin. Poles apart, such tensity leads to attraction, expressed in multiple affinities; divided by time, while untimeliness transfers energy to the analysis. Matthew Charles symphonizes beautifully this convocation of the Romantic, the Classical and the Modern.

Matthew Charles is a senior lecturer in cultural and critical theory at the University of Westminster, UK. He is the co-author of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Walter Benjamin and several articles and chapters on critical theory and education.

• Introduction: Perverse Antiques 1. Criticism, Transdisciplinarity and Transcriticism: Walter Benjamin and the Kantian Traditioni. Literary Criticism and Aesthetic Judgementii. Transcriticism and Non-Synthetic Judgementiii. Contingent Criticism and Teleological J­­udgement2. Weak Messianism in German Romanticismi. Literary Criticism as Messianic Reflectionii. Weak Messianism: Formalism, Affirmationism, Singularityiii. Aestheticentricism and Problems of the Romantic Imagination 3. Strong Aesthetics in Goethe’s Tender Empiricismi. Aesthetics of Science: Critique of Sensibilityii. Teleological Pessimism: Ephemerality and Multiplicity4. Pure Content: the Ephemerality of Colouri. Goethe’s Colour Theory: Na­­tureii. Benjamin’s Colour Theory: Phantasyiii. Expressionist Colour (I): Grünewald and Maréesiv. Expressionist Colour (II): Klee and Turner5. Pure Expression: the Violence of Criticismi. Translating the Pure Wordii. Expressionist Language (I): Goethe’s Elective Affinitiesiii. Expressionist Language (II): T. E. Hulme’s Imagist poetry6. Pure History: the Untimeliness of Technologyi. Goethe’s Untimeliness: Nietzsche, Koselleck and Benjaminii. Expressionist Technology (I): Klages, Marx and the Soviet Avant-Gardeiii. Expressionist Technology (II): Cinematic Modernism in Goethe’s FaustAfterword: All that is ephemeral… becomes an Event

Modernism Between Benjamin and Goethe is an exhilarating assembling of voices. At its core is Goethe speaking across a century to Benjamin. Poles apart, such tensity leads to attraction, expressed in multiple affinities; divided by time, while untimeliness transfers energy to the analysis. Matthew Charles symphonizes beautifully this convocation of the Romantic, the Classical and the Modern.

Matthew Charles is a senior lecturer in cultural and critical theory at the University of Westminster, UK. He is the co-author of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Walter Benjamin and several articles and chapters on critical theory and education.

• Introduction: Perverse Antiques 1. Criticism, Transdisciplinarity and Transcriticism: Walter Benjamin and the Kantian Traditioni. Literary Criticism and Aesthetic Judgementii. Transcriticism and Non-Synthetic Judgementiii. Contingent Criticism and Teleological J­­udgement2. Weak Messianism in German Romanticismi. Literary Criticism as Messianic Reflectionii. Weak Messianism: Formalism, Affirmationism, Singularityiii. Aestheticentricism and Problems of the Romantic Imagination 3. Strong Aesthetics in Goethe’s Tender Empiricismi. Aesthetics of Science: Critique of Sensibilityii. Teleological Pessimism: Ephemerality and Multiplicity4. Pure Content: the Ephemerality of Colouri. Goethe’s Colour Theory: Na­­tureii. Benjamin’s Colour Theory: Phantasyiii. Expressionist Colour (I): Grünewald and Maréesiv. Expressionist Colour (II): Klee and Turner5. Pure Expression: the Violence of Criticismi. Translating the Pure Wordii. Expressionist Language (I): Goethe’s Elective Affinitiesiii. Expressionist Language (II): T. E. Hulme’s Imagist poetry6. Pure History: the Untimeliness of Technologyi. Goethe’s Untimeliness: Nietzsche, Koselleck and Benjaminii. Expressionist Technology (I): Klages, Marx and the Soviet Avant-Gardeiii. Expressionist Technology (II): Cinematic Modernism in Goethe’s FaustAfterword: All that is ephemeral… becomes an Event

Modernism Between Benjamin and Goethe is an exhilarating assembling of voices. At its core is Goethe speaking across a century to Benjamin. Poles apart, such tensity leads to attraction, expressed in multiple affinities; divided by time, while untimeliness transfers energy to the analysis. Matthew Charles symphonizes beautifully this convocation of the Romantic, the Classical and the Modern.