Benjamin's Figures

aus dem Klappentext:

Just as Benedetto Croce cleared the way to the individual, concrete work of art by demolishing the doctrine of artistic form, so the purpose of my analyses so far has been to clear the way to the work of art by demolishing the doctrine which would assign art to a distinct domain. The common programmatic aim of these analyses has been to further the process of integration in scholarship, which increasingly transgresses the rigid disciplinary boundaries that characterized its practice in the last century. They do so through a study of the work of art which sees in it an integral expression of the religious, metaphysical, political, and economic tendencies of its age that will not in any sense be pigeonholed.
Walter Benjamin

Preface - Madeleine Kasten

List of Abbreviations


DIALETICS AT A STANDSTILL: BENJAMIN'S "DENKBILDER"

Benjamin's Thougt-Images in Einbahnstraße - Gustan Asselbergs

Sichtlich sich verbergend: Die Autor-Figur des Passagen-Werks - Wolfram Malte Fues


LIMINAL FIGURES: CHILD AND FLANEUR

The Child at the Threshold: Walter Benjamin's Berliner Kindheit um 1900 - Corina Stan

The Flâneur and the Socio-Economic Critique - Nassima Sahraoui


UNSIGHTLY FIGURES

Walter Benjamin's Figures of De-Figuration: The Barbarian, the Destructive Character, and the Monster - Sami R. Khatib


ANGELS AND HISTORIANS

Closing Time: Benjamin, Temporality, and the Problem of Political Organization - Bennett Carpenter

Of Fish and Men: Benjamin's Allegorist and the Meaning of Life - Madeleine Kasten

Walter Benjamin on Charlie Chaplin: The Rehabilitation of the Allegorical in Modernity - Daniel Mourenza


THE NARRATOR AND THE POLITICS OF SENSES

"Drawing o an Unlikely Source": The "Erzähler", the Islamic Revival, and Benjamin's Philosophy of Language - Ton Groeneweg


TRANSLATION BETWEEN FOREIGNNESS AND KINSHIP

Bleakness in the Age of Google: Walter Benjamin and the Possibility of Redemptive Translation - Orr Scharf

Walter Benjamin's Translator/Critic as a Model for Transcultural Thought and Practice - Gisela Brinker-Gabler


THE TASK OF CRITIC

Lektüre als Opfer: Der Kritiker in "Wider ein Meisterwerk" und dem Trauerspielbuch - Anna Wotkowicz


THE RIGHTEOUS AS MEDIATOR OF LINGUISTIC EXPERIENCE

"Im Anfang war das Wort": Von Adam, zwei Bäumen und dem Gerechten - Gerard Visser


About the Authors

Indices