Walter Benjamin and theology / Colby Dickinson and Stephane Symons, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dickinson, Colby, editor.

Symons, Stephane, editor.

Series:

Perspectives in continental philosophy.

Perspectives in continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.

Benjamin, Walter.

Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin writes that his work is “related to theology as blotting pad is related to ink. It is saturated with it.” For a thinker so decisive to critical literary, cultural, political, and aesthetic writings over the past half-century, Benjamin’s relationship to theological matters has been less observed than it should, even despite a variety of attempts over the last four decades to illuminate the theological elements latent within his eclectic and occasional writings. Such attempts, though undeniably crucial to comprehending his thought, remain in need of deepened systematic analysis. In bringing together some of the most renowned experts from both sides of the Atlantic, Walter Benjamin and Theology seeks to establish a new site from which to address both the issue of Benjamin’s relationship with theology and all the crucial aspects that Benjamin himself grappled with when addressing the field and operations of theological inquiry.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction

Benjamin’s Messianic Metaphysics of Transience

Completion Instead of Revelation

Fidelity, Love, Eros

The Will to Apokatastasis

Walter Benjamin’s Jewishness

Benjamin’s Natural Theology

Walter Benjamin—A Modern Marcionite?

Seminar Notes on Walter Benjamin’s “Theses on the Philosophy of History”

On Benjamin’s Baudelaire

On Vanishing and Fulfillment

Rhythms of the Living, Conditions of Critique

One Time Traverses Another

Walter Benjamin and Christian Critical Ethics—A Comment

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8232-7021-1

0-8232-7022-X

0-8232-7020-3

OCLC:

944211556