Benjamin's Figures

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