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Body-and image-space : re-reading Walter Benjamin /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weigel, Sigrid
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
Colección:Warwick studies in European philosophy.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Distorted similitude
  • Benjamin as theorist
  • 1. Benjamin's 'world of universal and integral actuality'
  • 2. 'Body- and image-space': Traces through Benjamin's writings
  • 3. Communicating tubes: Michel Foucault and Walter Benjamin
  • 4. Thought-images: A re-reading of the 'angel of history'
  • 5. Towards a female dialectic of enlightenment: Julia Kristeva and Walter Benjamin
  • 6. From images to dialectical images: The significance of gender difference in Benjamin's writings
  • 7. 'other' in allegory: A prehistory of the allegory of modernity in the Baroque
  • 8. From topography to writing: Benjamin's concept of memory
  • 9. reading that takes the place of translation: The psychoanalytical reformulation of the theory of language magic
  • 10. Readability: Benjamin's place in contemporary theoretical approaches to pictorial and corporeal memory
  • 11. Non-philosophical amazement
  • writing in amazement: Benjamin's position in the aftermath of the holocaust.