Postsecular Benjamin
Subtitle: Agency and Tradition
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: May 15, 2016
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780810133198
Description: In readings of Walter Benjamin's work, religion often marks a boundary between scholarly camps, but it rarely receives close and sustained scrutiny. Benjamin's most influential writings pertain to modern art and culture, but he frequently used religious language while rejecting both secularism and religious revival. Benjamin was, in today's terms, postsecular. Postsecular Benjamin explicates Benjamin's engagements with religious traditions as resources for contemporary debates on secularism, conflict, and identity. Brian Britt argues that what animates this work on tradition is the question of human agency, which he pursues through lively and sustained experimentation with ways of thinking, reading, and writing. --
Notes: Source title: Postsecular Benjamin: Agency and Tradition