Thinking in Constellations
This collection of provocative essays demonstrates how Walter Benjamin’s “constellation” method provides a new understanding of the Humanities. It challenges assumptions of linearity and progression, going beyond disciplinary boundaries.
Giffin explores how Patrick White and his post-war contemporaries all commented on the consequences of God’s death. He shows how they worked with a shared pattern of tropes to search for the light and dark aspects of western consciousness and the civilization it has produced.