Body-and image-space : re-reading Walter Benjamin / Sigrid Weigel ; translated by Georgina Paul, with Rachel McNicholl and Jeremy Gaines.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weigel, Sigrid.

Series:

Warwick studies in European philosophy.

Warwick studies in European philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.

Benjamin, Walter.

Philosophy, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Assembled here for the first time in English translation Sigrid Weigel offers illuminating new insights into Benjamin's theory, combining impulses from post-structuralism, feminism, cultural anthropology and psychoanalysis.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Translator's note; Introduction: Distorted similitude; Benjamin as theorist; Benjamin's 'world of universal and integral actuality'; 'Body- and image-space': Traces through Benjamin's writings; Communicating tubes: Michel Foucault and Walter Benjamin; Thought-images: A re-reading of the 'angel of history'; Towards a female dialectic of enlightenment: Julia Kristeva and Walter Benjamin; From images to dialectical images: The significance of gender difference in Benjamin's writings; The 'other' in allegory: A prehistory of the allegory of modernity in the Baroque

From topography to writing: Benjamin's concept of memoryThe reading that takes the place of translation: The psychoanalytical reformulation of the theory of language magic; Readability: Benjamin's place in contemporary theoretical approaches to pictorial and corporeal memory; Non-philosophical amazement; writing in amazement: Benjamin's position in the aftermath of the holocaust; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-83751-8

0-203-45950-4

0-203-45074-4

1-280-06671-7

1-134-83752-6

9780203450741

OCLC:

560259749