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" Benjamin's -abilities / "
Samuel Weber
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BL
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584189
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b413408
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Weber, Samuel,1940-
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Benjamin's -abilities /\ Samuel Weber
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, Mass. :: Harvard University Press,, 2008
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viii, 363 p. ;; 24 cm
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9780674028371 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 0674028376 (cloth : alk. paper)
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| Notes
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"Appendix: Walter Benjamin's "Seagulls" : a translation"--P. [325]-326
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"Seagulls" translated from the German
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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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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Benjamin, Walter,1892-1940
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Benjamin, Walter,1892-1940.
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