Benjamin's -abilities [[electronic resource] /] / Samuel Weber

• Autore: Weber Samuel <1940->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (374 p.)
• Disciplina: 193
• Soggetto topico: PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics
• Altri autori: BenjaminWalter <1892-1940.>
• Note generali: "Appendix: Walter Benjamin's "Seagulls" : a translation"--P. [325]-326.; "Seagulls" translated from the German.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Benjamin's -abilities
• ISBN: 0-674-03395-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807003903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II