Madeleine Kasten, Rico Sneller, Gerard Visser (eds.)

Benjamin's Figures

Dialogues on the Vocation of the Humanities

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Inhaltsverzeichnis


Preface - Madeleine Kasten

List of Abbreviations


DIALETICS AT A STANDSTILL: BENJAMIN'S "DENKBILDER"

Benjamin's Thougt-Images in Einbahnstraße - Gustan Asselbergs

Sichtlich sich verbergend: Die Autor-Figur des Passagen-Werks - Wolfram Malte Fues


LIMINAL FIGURES: CHILD AND FLANEUR

The Child at the Threshold: Walter Benjamin's Berliner Kindheit um 1900 - Corina Stan

The Flâneur and the Socio-Economic Critique - Nassima Sahraoui


UNSIGHTLY FIGURES

Walter Benjamin's Figures of De-Figuration: The Barbarian, the Destructive Character, and the Monster - Sami R. Khatib


ANGELS AND HISTORIANS

Closing Time: Benjamin, Temporality, and the Problem of Political Organization - Bennett Carpenter

Of Fish and Men: Benjamin's Allegorist and the Meaning of Life - Madeleine Kasten

Walter Benjamin on Charlie Chaplin: The Rehabilitation of the Allegorical in Modernity - Daniel Mourenza


THE NARRATOR AND THE POLITICS OF SENSES

"Drawing o an Unlikely Source": The "Erzähler", the Islamic Revival, and Benjamin's Philosophy of Language - Ton Groeneweg


TRANSLATION BETWEEN FOREIGNNESS AND KINSHIP

Bleakness in the Age of Google: Walter Benjamin and the Possibility of Redemptive Translation - Orr Scharf

Walter Benjamin's Translator/Critic as a Model for Transcultural Thought and Practice - Gisela Brinker-Gabler


THE TASK OF CRITIC

Lektüre als Opfer: Der Kritiker in "Wider ein Meisterwerk" und dem Trauerspielbuch - Anna Wotkowicz


THE RIGHTEOUS AS MEDIATOR OF LINGUISTIC EXPERIENCE

"Im Anfang war das Wort": Von Adam, zwei Bäumen und dem Gerechten - Gerard Visser


About the Authors

Indices


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