Walter Benjamin and Theology / / ed. by Stéphane Symons, Colby Dickinson.

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 relation...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Metaphysics of Transience, Natural and Supernatural Life, and Apokatastasis
  • Benjamin's Messianic Metaphysics of Transience
  • Completion Instead of Revelation
  • Fidelity, Love, Eros
  • The Will to Apokatastasis
  • Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Influences
  • 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"
  • Dislocated Messianism: Modernity, Marxism, and Violence
  • 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