Body-and Image-Space : Re-Reading Walter Benjamin

ISBN-13: 9780415109550 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 204 str.

Sigrid Weigel; Georgina Paul; Rachel McNicholl

Opis

The period 1985-1995 saw a new wave of interest, in philosophical and theoretical circles, in the writings of Walter Benjamin, associate of the early Frankfurt School and among the most innovative and uncategorizable of German modernist thinkers. It is against the horizon of the contemporary theoretical scene, combining impulses from post-structuralism, feminism, cultural anthropology, and psychoanalysis, that Sigrid Weigel, one of Germany's leading Benjamin experts, undertakes her re-reading of his work. The subject of this sequence of eleven essays, assembled here for the first time in English translation, is Benjamin as theorist, whereby his work on thinking in images or UBilddnken and the relation of this to 'the first material of human existence ... the body is taken as constituting the specificity of his philosophy. Arranged in three sections ( Politics of Images and Body, Other - Gender - Readings, and Memory and Writing) the essays provide a passage into Benjamin's thinking in images.

Spis treści

1. Gender Images to Dialectical Images, 2. `Body- and Image Space' - Traces through Benjamin's Writings, 3. Psychoanalytic Constellations in Benjamin's Thoughts, 4. Politics of Imagery - Benjamin's Concept of `Aktualitat' ...within contemporary theory, 5. A Female Dialectic of Enlightenment - Kristeva and Benjamin, 6. Communicated Ducts: Foucault and Benjamin, 7. The `Other' in Allegory - A Forhistory of Modernity in Baroque, 8. Legibility - the Memory of Body and Image in Theory,

O autorze

Sigrid Weigel