Walter Benjamin Images, the Creaturely, and the Holy

Name: Walter Benjamin Images, the Creaturely, and the Holy
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ISBN: 9780804780599

ISBN-10: 0804780595

ISBN-13: 9780804780599

Edition: 2013

Authors: Sigrid Weigel, Chadwick Truscott Smith

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Arguing that the importance of painting and other visual art for Benjamin's epistemology has yet to be appreciated, Weigel undertakes the first systematic analysis of their significance to his thought. She does so by exploring Benjamin's dialectics of secularization, an approach that allows Benjamin to explore the simultaneous distance from and orientation towards revelation and to deal with the difference and tensions between religious and profane ideas. In the process, Weigel identifies the double reference of 'life' to both nature and to a 'supernatural' sphere as a guiding concept of Benjamin's writings. Sensitive to the notorious difficulty of translating his language, she underscores…

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List price: $130.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 1/9/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Illustrations


Explanation of Translation and Citation


Abbreviations of Cited Works


Acknowledgments


Foreword


On the Threshold Between Creation and Last Judgment



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


Something from Beyond the Poet that Breaks into Poetic Language



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: Benjamins Readings of Kafka as a Critique of Christian and Jewish Theologoumena


From the Midst of his Image World



Translation as the Provisional Approach to the Foreignness of Language: On the Disappearance of Thought-Images in Translations of Benjamin's Writings



The Study of Images in the Spirit of True Philology: The Odyssey of The Origin of the 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


Appendix


Documentation of the Correspondence on the Odyssey Taken by Benjamin's Trauerspiel Book in the KBW: Extracts from the Letters