Body-and Image-Space
Re-Reading Walter Benjamin

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Sommario

1. Gender Images to Dialectical Images, 2. `Body- and Image Space' - Traces through Benjamin's Writings, 3. Psychoanalytic Constellations in Benjamin's Thoughts, 4. Politics of Imagery - Benjamin's Concept of `Aktualitat' ...within contemporary theory, 5. A Female Dialectic of Enlightenment - Kristeva and Benjamin, 6. Communicated Ducts: Foucault and Benjamin, 7. The `Other' in Allegory - A Forhistory of Modernity in Baroque, 8. Legibility - the Memory of Body and Image in Theory,

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Sigrid Weigel

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Assembled here for the first time in English translation Sigrid Weigel offers illuminating new insights into Benjamin's theory, combining impulses from post-structuralism, feminism, cultural anthropology and psychoanalysis.