An edition of Walter Benjamin (2012)

Walter Benjamin

images, the creaturely, and the holy

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Walter Benjamin
Sigrid Weigel, Sigrid Weigel
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Stanford University Press
Language
English
Pages
273

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Criticism and interpretation, Benjamin, walter, 1892-1940, German literature, history and criticism

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Table of Contents

The creaturely and the holy : Benjamin's engagement with secularization
The sovereign and the martyr : the dilemma of political theology in light of the return of religion
Disregard of the first commandment in monstrous cases : the "critique of violence" beyond legal theory and "states of exception"
The artwork as a breach of the beyond : on the dialectic of divine and human order in "Goethe's elective affinities"
Biblical pathos formulas and earthly hell : Brecht as antipode to Benjamin's engagement with "holy scripture"
Jewish thinking in a world without god : Benjamin's readings of Kafka as a critique of Christian and Jewish theologoumena
Translation as the provisional approach to the foreignness of language : on the disappearance of thought-images in images in translations of Benjamin's writings
The study of images in the spirit of true philology : the odyssey of the origin of German mourning play through the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg
The unknown masterpieces in Benjamin's picture gallery : on the relevance of visual art for Benjamin's epistemology
Detail : photographic and cinematographic images : on the significance of the history of media in Benjamin's theory of culture.

Edition Notes

"Originally published in German under the title Die Kreatur, das Heilige, die Bilder."

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Series
Cultural memory in the present, Cultural memory in the present

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Dewey Decimal Class
838/.91209
Library of Congress
PT2603.E455 Z9425 2012, PT2603, PT2603.E455 Z9425 2013

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Pagination
pages cm.
Number of pages
273

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OL25393862M
ISBN 13
9780804780599, 9780804780605
LCCN
2012029069
OCLC/WorldCat
788276037

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