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

Author: Sigrid Weigel
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
Series: Warwick studies in European philosophy.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Named Person: Walter Benjamin; Walter Benjamin
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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