Walter Benjamin
Subtitle: images, the creaturely, and the holy
By: Sigrid Weigel ; translated by Chadwick Truscott Smith
Series: Cultural memory in the present; Cultural memory in the present
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780804780599; 9780804780605
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Work titles: Walter Benjamin
Notes: "Originally published in German under the title Die Kreatur, das Heilige, die Bilder."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The creaturely and the holy : Benjamin's engagement with secularization; title: The sovereign and the martyr : the dilemma of political theology in light of the return of religion; title: Disregard of the first commandment in monstrous cases : the "critique of violence" beyond legal theory and "states of exception"; title: The artwork as a breach of the beyond : on the dialectic of divine and human order in "Goethe's elective affinities"; title: Biblical pathos formulas and earthly hell : Brecht as antipode to Benjamin's engagement with "holy scripture"; title: Jewish thinking in a world without god : Benjamin's readings of Kafka as a critique of Christian and Jewish theologoumena; title: Translation as the provisional approach to the foreignness of language : on the disappearance of thought-images in images in translations of Benjamin's writings; title: The study of images in the spirit of true philology : the odyssey of the origin of German mourning play through the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg; title: The unknown masterpieces in Benjamin's picture gallery : on the relevance of visual art for Benjamin's epistemology; title: Detail : photographic and cinematographic images : on the significance of the history of media in Benjamin's theory of culture.