Walter Benjamin :
Kohlenbach, Margarete.
Walter Benjamin : self-reference and religiosity / Margarete Kohlenbach. - Houndsmill, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2002. - xvii, 241 p. ; 22 cm.Pbk - New perspectives in German studies .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-222) and index.
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• References and Abbreviations
• PART I: LANGUAGE
• Spiritual Self-expression
• The Self-communication of Language
• Suspended Revelation
• PART II: LITERATURE
• Religious Decisionism and Art
• Literary Self-reflection
• Criticism
• PART III: HISTORY AND TECHNIK
• Performative Continuity
• Mortification
• The Red Flag
• Technik
• The Invincible Dwarf
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.
Walter Benjamin's work represents one of the most radical and controversial responses to the problems of twentieth-century culture and society. This new interpretation analyzes some of the central enigmatic features of his writing, arguing that they result from the co-presence of religious scepticism and the desire for a religious foundation of social life. Margarete Kohlenbach focuses on the structure of self-reference as an expression of Benjamin's sceptical religiosity and examines its significance in his writing on language, literature and the cinema, as well as history, politics and modern technology.
9781349432097
2002022419
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.
Religion--Philosophy--History--20th century.
Autopoiesis--History--20th century.
193 KOH
Walter Benjamin : self-reference and religiosity / Margarete Kohlenbach. - Houndsmill, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2002. - xvii, 241 p. ; 22 cm.Pbk - New perspectives in German studies .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-222) and index.
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• References and Abbreviations
• PART I: LANGUAGE
• Spiritual Self-expression
• The Self-communication of Language
• Suspended Revelation
• PART II: LITERATURE
• Religious Decisionism and Art
• Literary Self-reflection
• Criticism
• PART III: HISTORY AND TECHNIK
• Performative Continuity
• Mortification
• The Red Flag
• Technik
• The Invincible Dwarf
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.
Walter Benjamin's work represents one of the most radical and controversial responses to the problems of twentieth-century culture and society. This new interpretation analyzes some of the central enigmatic features of his writing, arguing that they result from the co-presence of religious scepticism and the desire for a religious foundation of social life. Margarete Kohlenbach focuses on the structure of self-reference as an expression of Benjamin's sceptical religiosity and examines its significance in his writing on language, literature and the cinema, as well as history, politics and modern technology.
9781349432097
2002022419
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.
Religion--Philosophy--History--20th century.
Autopoiesis--History--20th century.
193 KOH