03605nam 2200601 a 450 991097141650332120200520144314.09780674033955067403395710.4159/9780674033955(CKB)1000000000787022(OCoLC)646811323(CaPaEBR)ebrary10313857(SSID)ssj0000110313(PQKBManifestationID)11139193(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000110313(PQKBWorkID)10063117(PQKB)11692983(Au-PeEL)EBL3300140(CaPaEBR)ebr10313857(OCoLC)923109436(DE-B1597)597015(DE-B1597)9780674033955(MiAaPQ)EBC3300140(OCoLC)1322125120(Perlego)1148332(EXLCZ)99100000000078702220071205d2008 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrBenjamin's -abilities /Samuel WeberCambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press20081 online resource (374 p.) "Appendix: Walter Benjamin's "Seagulls" : a translation"--P. [325]-326."Seagulls" translated from the German.9780674028371 0674028376 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- PART ONE Benjamin’s -abilities -- CHAPTER ONE Introduction -- CHAPTER TWO Prehistory: Kant, Hölderlin—et cetera -- CHAPTER THREE Criticizability—Calculability -- CHAPTER FOUR Impart-ability: Language as Medium -- CHAPTER FIVE Translatability I: Following (Nachfolge) -- CHAPTER SIX Translatability II: Afterlife -- CHAPTER SEVEN Citability—of Gesture -- CHAPTER EIGHT Ability and Style -- CHAPTER NINE An Afterlife of -abilities: Derrida -- PART TWO Legibilities -- CHAPTER TEN Genealogy of Modernity: History, Myth, and Allegory in Benjamin’s Origin of the German Mourning Play -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Awakening -- CHAPTER TWELVE Taking Exception to Decision: Walter Benjamin and Carl Schmitt -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Violence and Gesture: Agamben Reading Benjamin Reading Kafka Reading Cervantes . . . -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Song and Glance: Walter Benjamin’s Secret Names (zugewandt—unverwandt) -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN “Streets, Squares, Theaters” A City on the Move—Walter Benjamin’s Paris -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN God and the Devil—in Detail -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Closing the Net “Capitalism as Religion” (Benjamin) -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The Ring as Trauerspiel: Reading Wagner with Benjamin and Derrida -- CHAPTER NINETEEN Reading Benjamin -- CHAPTER TWENTY “Seagulls” -- APPENDIX Walter Benjamin’s “Seagulls” A Translation -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- IndexIn this book, Weber, a leading theorist on literature and media, reveals a new and productive aspect of Benjamin's thought by focusing the critical suffix "-ability" that Benjamin so tellingly deploys in his work. The result is an illuminating perspective on Benjamin's thought by way of his language - and one of the most penetrating and comprehensive accounts of Benjamin's work ever written.193Weber Samuel1940-1517Benjamin Walter1892-1940.11365MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910971416503321Benjamin's -abilities4352313UNINA