Body-and Image-Space: Re-Reading Walter Benjamin / Edition 1

by Sigrid Weigel, Georgina Paul

Overview

The last decade has seen a new wave of interest in philosophical and theoretical circles in the writings of Walter Benjamin. In Body-and Image-Space Sigrid Weigel, one of Germany's leading feminist theorists and a renowned commentator on the work of Walter Benjamin, argues that the reception of his work has so far overlooked a crucial aspect of his thought - his use of images. Weigel shows that it is precisely his practice of thinking in images that holds the key to understanding the full complexity, richness and topicality of Benjamin's theory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415109550
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/26/1996
Series:	Warwick Studies in European Philosophy
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1. Gender Images to Dialectical Images, 2. ‘Body- and Image Space' - Traces through Benjamin's Writings, 3. Psychoanalytic Constellations in Benjamin's Thoughts, 4. Politics of Imagery - Benjamin's Concept of ‘Aktualitat' ...within contemporary theory, 5. A Female Dialectic of Enlightenment - Kristeva and Benjamin, 6. Communicated Ducts: Foucault and Benjamin, 7. The ‘Other' in Allegory - A Forhistory of Modernity in Baroque, 8. Legibility - the Memory of Body and Image in Theory,

Editorial Reviews

"With its stunningly novel reading of the fabled angel of history, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in Benjamin's "Aktualitaet today. Lucidly argues and luminously presented, it explores Benjamin's thinking and writing-in-images in a widening range of concentric circles ... A major contribution to historical scholarship and contemporary critical debates."
-Andreas Huyssen, Columbia University

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