Frontmatter
Contents
Abbreviations
PART ONE Benjamin's -abilities
CHAPTER ONE Introduction
CHAPTER TWO Prehistory: Kant, Hölderlin-et cetera
CHAPTER THREE Criticizability-Calculability
CHAPTER FOUR Impart-ability: Language as Medium
CHAPTER FIVE Translatability I: Following (Nachfolge)
CHAPTER SIX Translatability II: Afterlife
CHAPTER SEVEN Citability-of Gesture
CHAPTER EIGHT Ability and Style
CHAPTER NINE An Afterlife of -abilities: Derrida
PART TWO Legibilities
CHAPTER TEN Genealogy of Modernity: History, Myth, and Allegory in Benjamin's Origin of the German Mourning Play
CHAPTER ELEVEN Awakening
CHAPTER TWELVE Taking Exception to Decision: Walter Benjamin and Carl Schmitt
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Violence and Gesture: Agamben Reading Benjamin Reading Kafka Reading Cervantes . . .
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Song and Glance: Walter Benjamin's Secret Names (zugewandt-unverwandt)
CHAPTER FIFTEEN "Streets, Squares, Theaters" A City on the Move-Walter Benjamin's Paris
CHAPTER SIXTEEN God and the Devil-in Detail
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Closing the Net "Capitalism as Religion" (Benjamin)
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The Ring as Trauerspiel: Reading Wagner with Benjamin and Derrida
CHAPTER NINETEEN Reading Benjamin
CHAPTER TWENTY "Seagulls"
APPENDIX Walter Benjamin's "Seagulls" A Translation
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index