Benjamin's -abilities /

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

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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Weber, Samuel,
Benjamin, Walter,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2010]
©2008
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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