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Walter Benjamin : images, the creaturely, and the holy
- Title
- Walter Benjamin : images, the creaturely, and the holy / Sigrid Weigel ; translated by Chadwick Truscott Smith.
- Author
- Weigel, Sigrid
- Publication
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2013]
- ©2013
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Details
- Description
- xxxii, 273 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Series Statement
- Cultural memory in the present
- Uniform Title
- Walter Benjamin. English
- Cultural memory in the present.
- Alternative Title
- Walter Benjamin.
- Subject
- Note
- "Originally published in German under the title Die Kreatur, das Heilige, die Bilder."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-1035
- ISBN
- 9780804780599 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0804780595 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780804780605 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0804780609 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2012029069
- OCLC
- YBP 2012029069
- Author
- Weigel, Sigrid, author.
- Title
- Walter Benjamin : images, the creaturely, and the holy / Sigrid Weigel ; translated by Chadwick Truscott Smith.
- Publisher
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2013]
- Copyright Date
- ©2013
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Cultural memory in the presentCultural memory in the present.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-1035