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Benjamin's -abilities /

0674028376 (cloth : alk. paper)

9780674028371 (cloth : alk. paper)

b413408

Benjamin's -abilities /

[Book]

Samuel Weber

Cambridge, Mass. :

Harvard University Press,

2008

viii, 363 p. ;

24 cm

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

"Seagulls" translated from the German

Includes bibliographical references and index

Benjamin's -abilities -- Prehistory: Kant, Hölderlin-et cetera -- Criticizability-calculability -- Impart-ability: language as medium -- Translatability I: following (Nachfolge) -- Translatability II: afterlife -- Citability-of gesture -- Ability and style -- An afterlife of -abilities: Derrida -- Legibilities -- Genealogy of modernity: history, myth, and allegory in Benjamin's Origin of the German Mourning Play -- Awakening -- Talking exception to decision: Walter Benjamin and Carl Schmitt -- Violence and gesture: Agamben reading Benjamin reading Kafka reading Cervantes... -- Song and glance: Walter Benjamin's secret names (zugewandt-unverwandt) -- "Streets, squares, theaters" : A City on the Move-Walter Benjamin's Paris -- God and the devil-in detail -- Closing the net: "Capitalism as Religion" (Benjamin) -- The Ring as Trauerspiel: reading Wagner with Benjamin and Derrida -- Reading Benjamin -- "Seagulls."

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Benjamin, Walter,1892-1940

Weber, Samuel,1940-

Benjamin, Walter,1892-1940.

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