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Benjamin's -abilities /
In this book, Weber, a leading theorist on literature and media, reveals a new and productive aspect of Benjamin's thought by focusing the critical suffix "-ability" that Benjamin so tellingly deploys in his work. The result is an illuminating perspective on Benjamin's thought by...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2010]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- PART ONE Benjamin's -abilities
- CHAPTER ONE Introduction
- CHAPTER TWO Prehistory: Kant, Hölderlin-et cetera
- CHAPTER THREE Criticizability-Calculability
- CHAPTER FOUR Impart-ability: Language as Medium
- CHAPTER FIVE Translatability I: Following (Nachfolge)
- CHAPTER SIX Translatability II: Afterlife
- CHAPTER SEVEN Citability-of Gesture
- CHAPTER EIGHT Ability and Style
- CHAPTER NINE An Afterlife of -abilities: Derrida
- PART TWO Legibilities
- CHAPTER TEN Genealogy of Modernity: History, Myth, and Allegory in Benjamin's Origin of the German Mourning Play
- CHAPTER ELEVEN Awakening
- CHAPTER TWELVE Taking Exception to Decision: Walter Benjamin and Carl Schmitt
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Violence and Gesture: Agamben Reading Benjamin Reading Kafka Reading Cervantes . . .
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Song and Glance: Walter Benjamin's Secret Names (zugewandt-unverwandt)
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN "Streets, Squares, Theaters" A City on the Move-Walter Benjamin's Paris
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN God and the Devil-in Detail
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Closing the Net "Capitalism as Religion" (Benjamin)
- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The Ring as Trauerspiel: Reading Wagner with Benjamin and Derrida
- CHAPTER NINETEEN Reading Benjamin
- CHAPTER TWENTY "Seagulls"
- APPENDIX Walter Benjamin's "Seagulls" A Translation
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index