Research Catalog

Title

Walter Benjamin : images, the creaturely, and the holy / Sigrid Weigel ; translated by Chadwick Truscott Smith.

Author

Weigel, Sigrid

Publication

• Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2013]
• ©2013

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Details

Description

xxxii, 273 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Series Statement

Cultural memory in the present

Uniform Title

• Walter Benjamin. English
• Cultural memory in the present.

Alternative Title

Walter Benjamin.

Subject

• Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 > Criticism and interpretation

Note

• "Originally published in German under the title Die Kreatur, das Heilige, die Bilder."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The creaturely and the holy : Benjamin's engagement with secularization -- The sovereign and the martyr : the dilemma of political theology in light of the return of religion -- Disregard of the first commandment in monstrous cases : the "critique of violence" beyond legal theory and "states of exception" -- The artwork as a breach of the beyond : on the dialectic of divine and human order in "Goethe's elective affinities" -- Biblical pathos formulas and earthly hell : Brecht as antipode to Benjamin's engagement with "holy scripture" -- Jewish thinking in a world without god : Benjamin's readings of Kafka as a critique of Christian and Jewish theologoumena -- Translation as the provisional approach to the foreignness of language : on the disappearance of thought-images in images in translations of Benjamin's writings -- The study of images in the spirit of true philology : the odyssey of the origin of German mourning play through the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg -- The unknown masterpieces in Benjamin's picture gallery : on the relevance of visual art for Benjamin's epistemology -- Detail : photographic and cinematographic images : on the significance of the history of media in Benjamin's theory of culture.

Call Number

JFE 13-1035

ISBN

• 9780804780599 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0804780595 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780804780605 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0804780609 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2012029069

OCLC

YBP 2012029069

Author

Weigel, Sigrid, author.

Title

Walter Benjamin : images, the creaturely, and the holy / Sigrid Weigel ; translated by Chadwick Truscott Smith.

Publisher

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2013]

Copyright Date

©2013

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Cultural memory in the present

Cultural memory in the present.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Research Call Number

JFE 13-1035