Benjamin's -abilities / Samuel Weber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weber, Samuel, 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.

Benjamin, Walter.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (374 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

"Appendix: Walter Benjamin's "Seagulls" : a translation"--P. [325]-326.

"Seagulls" translated from the German.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940. Mowen. English.

ISBN:

9780674033955

0674033957

OCLC:

646811323