An edition of Walter Benjamin (2012)

Walter Benjamin

images, the creaturely, and the holy

Walter Benjamin
Sigrid Weigel, Sigrid Weigel
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An edition of Walter Benjamin (2012)

Walter Benjamin

images, the creaturely, and the holy

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273

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Walter Benjamin: images, the creaturely, and the holy
2012, Stanford University Press
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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."

Includes bibliographical references.

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

Classifications

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

The Physical Object

Pagination
pages cm.
Number of pages
273

ID Numbers

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

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