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Title Benjamin's figures : dialogues on the vocation of the humanities / Madeleine Kasten, Rico Sneller, Gerard Visser (eds.)
Published Nordhausen : Verlag Traugott Bautz GmbH, 2018

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Series Libri nigri ; 65
Libri nigri ; 65.
Contents Cover; Titelei; Impressum; Contents; Preface; Madeleine Kasten; Dialectics at a Standstill:; Benjamin's 'Denkbilder'; Benjamin's Thought-Images in Einbahnstraße; Gustan Asselbergs; Sichtlich sich verbergend:; Die Autor-Figur des Passagen-Werks; Wolfram Malte Fues; Liminal Figures: Child and Flâneur; The Child at the Threshold:; Walter Benjamin's Berliner Kindheit um 1900; Corina Stan; The Flâneur and Socio-Economic Critique; Nassima Sahraoui; Unsightly Figures; Walter Benjamin's Figures of De-Figuration:; The Barbarian, the Destructive Character, and the Monster; Sami R. Khatib
Angels and HistoriansBenjamin's Angel in Light of Jewish Mysticism; Rico Sneller; 'To Make the Continuum of History Explode':; On the Concept of Time in Walter Benjamin's On the Concept of History and David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas; Anna F. Köberich; Die Angel der kleinen Pforte:; Walter Benjamins Konzept des Eingedenkens und seine Bedeutung für die humanities; Stefano Marchesoni; Allegory and the Politics of Representation; Closing Time:; Benjamin, Temporality, and the Problem of Political Organization; Bennett Carpenter; Of Fish and Men:; Benjamin's Allegorist and the Meaning of Life
Madeleine KastenWalter Benjamin on Charlie Chaplin:; The Rehabilitation of the Allegorical in Modernity; Daniel Mourenza; The Narrator and the Politics of Senses; "Drawing on an Unlikely Source":; The "Erzähler", the Islamic Revival, and Benjamin's Philosophy of Language; Ton Groeneweg; Translation between Foreignness and Kinship; Bleakness in the Age of Google:; Walter Benjamin and the Possibility of Redemptive Translation*; Orr Scharf; Walter Benjamin's Translator/Critic as a Model for Transcultural Thought and Practice; Gisela Brinker-Gabler; The Task of the Critic; Lektüre als Opfer
Der Kritiker in "Wider ein Meisterwerk" und dem TrauerspielbuchAnna Wołkowicz; The Righteous as Mediator of Linguistic Experience; "Im Anfang war das Wort":; Von Adam, zwei Bäumen und dem Gerechten; Gerard Visser; About the Authors; Indices
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Contributions in English and German
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 13, 2018)
Subject Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 fast
Subject LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Kasten, Madeleine, editor
Sneller, Rico, 1967- editor.
Visser, Gerhard, editor
ISBN 9783959489218
3959489218