Benjamin's -abilities / Samuel Weber.
Weber, Samuel, 1940-; Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940. Möwen. English.
2008
B3209.B584 W43 2008 (Mapit)
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Title Benjamin's -abilities / Samuel Weber.
Author Weber, Samuel, 1940-
ISBN 9780674046061 (pbk.)
9780674028371 (alk. paper)
0674028376 (alk. paper)
Publication Details Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
Language English
Description viii, 363 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number B3209.B584 W43 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 193
Summary ""There is no world of thought that is not a world of language," Walter Benjamin remarked, "and one only sees in the world what is preconditioned by language." In this book, Samuel Weber reveals a new and productive aspect of Benjamin's thought by focusing on a little-discussed stylistic trait in his formulation of concepts." "Weber's focus is the critical suffix "-ability" that Benjamin so tellingly deploys in his work. The "-ability" of concepts and literary forms traverses the whole of Benjamin's oeuvre, from "impartibility" and "criticizability" through the well-known formulations of "citability," "translatability," and, most famously, the "reproducibility" of "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility.""--BOOK JACKET.
Note "Appendix: Walter Benjamin's "Seagulls" : a translation"--P. [325]-326.
"Seagulls" translated from the German.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940. Möwen. English.
Includes Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940. Möwen. English.
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Benjamin's -abilities
Prehistory: Kant, Hölderlin-et cetera
Criticizability-calculability
Impart-ability: language as medium
Translatability I: following (Nachfolge)
Translatability II: afterlife
Citability-of gesture
Ability and style
An afterlife of -abilities: Derrida
Legibilities
Genealogy of modernity: history, myth, and allegory in Benjamin's Origin of the German Mourning Play
Awakening
Talking exception to decision: Walter Benjamin and Carl Schmitt
Violence and gesture: Agamben reading Benjamin reading Kafka reading Cervantes...
Song and glance: Walter Benjamin's secret names (zugewandt-unverwandt)
"Streets, squares, theaters" : A City on the Move-Walter Benjamin's Paris
God and the devil-in detail
Closing the net: "Capitalism as Religion" (Benjamin)
The Ring as Trauerspiel: reading Wagner with Benjamin and Derrida
Reading Benjamin
"Seagulls."

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