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| Named Person: | Walter Benjamin; Walter Benjamin |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Sigrid Weigel |
| ISBN: | 0415109558 9780415109550 0415109566 9780415109567 9780203450741 0203450744 |
| OCLC Number: | 33972197 |
| Description: | xvii, 204 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. The 'other' in allegory: A prehistory of the allegory of modernity in the Baroque -- 8. From topography to writing: Benjamin's concept of memory -- 9. The 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. |
| Series Title: | Warwick studies in European philosophy. |
| Responsibility: | Sigrid Weigel ; translated by Georgina Paul, with Rachel McNicholl and Jeremy Gaines. |
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