Walter Benjamin : images, the creaturely, and the holy
Sigrid Weigel
Bok · Engelsk · 2013
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| Omfang | xxxii, 273 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | 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.
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| Emner | |
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| ISBN | 9780804780599. - 9780804780605
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