Benjamin''s -Abilities

Informationen zum Autor Samuel Weber Klappentext A leading theorist on literature and media reveals a new and productive aspect of Benjamin¿s thought by focusing on the critical suffix ¿-ability¿ that Benjamin so tellingly deploys in his work. The result is an illuminating perspective on Benjamin¿s thought by way of his language. Zusammenfassung A leading theorist on literature and media reveals a new and productive aspect of Benjamin’s thought by focusing on the critical suffix “-ability” that Benjamin so tellingly deploys in his work. The result is an illuminating perspective on Benjamin’s thought by way of his language. Inhaltsverzeichnis * List of Abbreviations * I. Benjamin's -abilities *1. Introduction *2. Prehistory: Kant! Holderlin--et cetera *3. Criticizability--Calculability *4. Impart-ability: Language as Medium *5. Translatability I: Following (Nachfolge) *6. Translatability II: Afterlife *7. Citability--of Gesture *8. Ability and Style *9. An Afterlife of -abilities: Derrida * II. Legibilities *10. Genealogy of Modernity: History! Myth! and Allegory in Benjamin's Origin of the German Mourning Play *11. Awakening *12. Taking Exception to Decision: Walter Benjamin and Carl Schmitt *13. Violence and Gesture: Agamben Reading Benjamin Reading Kafka Reading Cervantes... *14. Song and Glance: Walter Benjamin's Secret Names (zugewandt--unverwandt) *15. "Streets! Squares! Theaters": A City on the Move--Walter Benjamin's Paris *16. God and the Devil--in Detail *17. Closing the Net: "Capitalism as Religion" (Benjamin) *18. The Ring as Trauerspiel: Reading Wagner with Benjamin and Derrida *19. Reading Benjamin *20. "Seagulls" * Appendix. Walter Benjamin's "Seagulls": A Translation * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index

Product details

• Authors: Walter Benjamin, Samuel Weber, Samuel Benjamin Weber, Weber Samuel
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.04.2010
• EAN: 9780674046061
• ISBN: 978-0-674-04606-1
• No. of pages: 376
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Europe, Philosophy, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, Philosophy: aesthetics, Literary studies: general, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought