Benjamin's -abilities / / Walter Benjamin, Samuel Weber.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
• VerfasserIn: Weber, Samuel,; Benjamin, Walter,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2010]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674033955; 9783110442212; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674033955?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Walter Benjamin, Samuel Weber.

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.