| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 204 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Warwick studies in European philosophy |
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Warwick studies in European philosophy.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Distorted similitude -- Benjamin as theorist -- 1. Benjamin's 'world of universal and integral actuality' -- 2. 'Body- and image-space': Traces through Benjamin's writings -- 3. Communicating tubes: Michel Foucault and Walter Benjamin -- 4. Thought-images: A re-reading of the 'angel of history' -- 5. Towards a female dialectic of enlightenment: Julia Kristeva and Walter Benjamin -- 6. From images to dialectical images: The significance of gender difference in Benjamin's writings -- 7. 'other' in allegory: A prehistory of the allegory of modernity in the Baroque -- 8. From topography to writing: Benjamin's concept of memory -- 9. reading that takes the place of translation: The psychoanalytical reformulation of the theory of language magic -- 10. Readability: Benjamin's place in contemporary theoretical approaches to pictorial and corporeal memory -- 11. Non-philosophical amazement -- writing in amazement: Benjamin's position in the aftermath of the holocaust |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-198) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
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| SUBJECT |
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 fast |
| Subject |
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
95026618 |
| ISBN |
0203450744 |
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9780203450741 |
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9780415109550 |
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0415109558 |
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9780415109567 |
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0415109566 |
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9786610066711 |
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661006671X |
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9781134837526 |
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1134837526 |
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9781134837472 |
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9781134837519 |
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1134837518 |
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0203459504 |
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9780203459508 |
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1280066717 |
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9781280066719 |
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