TY  - BOOK
N2  - ""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.
AB  - ""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.
T1  - Benjamin's -abilities /
DA  - 2008.
CY  - Cambridge, Mass. :
AU  - Weber, Samuel,
AU  - Benjamin, Walter,
CN  - B3209.B584
CN  - B3209.B584
PB  - Harvard University Press,
PP  - Cambridge, Mass. :
LA  - eng
PY  - 2008.
N1  - "Appendix: Walter Benjamin's "Seagulls" : a translation"--P. [325]-326.
N1  - "Seagulls" translated from the German.
ID  - 338453
SN  - 9780674046061 (pbk.)
SN  - 9780674028371 (alk. paper)
SN  - 0674028376 (alk. paper)
TI  - Benjamin's -abilities /
LK  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip086/2007049785.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip086/2007049785.html
ER  -