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10%OFFSigrid Weigel - Walter Benjamin: Images, the Creaturely, and the Holy - 9780804780605 - V9780804780605
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Walter Benjamin: Images, the Creaturely, and the Holy

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Description for Walter Benjamin: Images, the Creaturely, and the Holy Paperback. "Originally published in German under the title Die Kreatur, das Heilige, die Bilder." Translator(s): Smith, Chadwick, Principal Chief Cherokee Nation. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.

Arguing that the importance of painting and other visual art for Benjamin's epistemology has yet to be appreciated, Weigel undertakes the first systematic analysis of their significance to his thought. She does so by exploring Benjamin's dialectics of secularization, an approach that allows Benjamin to explore the simultaneous distance from and orientation towards revelation and to deal with the difference and tensions between religious and profane ideas. In the process, Weigel identifies the double reference of 'life' to both nature and to a 'supernatural' sphere as a guiding concept of Benjamin's writings. Sensitive to the notorious difficulty of translating his ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
273
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804780605
SKU
V9780804780605
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99-50

About Sigrid Weigel
Sigrid Weigel is Director of the Center for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin.

Reviews for Walter Benjamin: Images, the Creaturely, and the Holy
"Weigel (director, Center for Literary and Cultural Research, Berlin) offers a meticulous exploration of the German writer Walter Benjamin's take on creaturely existence, law, sovereignty, secularization and holiness, language, and art."—M. V. Marder, CHOICE "Weigel's readings, which are steeped in philological detail and hermeneutic insight, brilliantly exhibit the stakes involved in approaching Benjamin's work anew. Her impeccable sense for intertextual ... Read more

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