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

by Weigel,Sigrid

• ISBN13: 9780415109550
• ISBN10: 0415109558
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-10-21
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Assembled here for the first time in English translation, Sigrid Weigel and Georgina Paul offer illuminating new insights into Benjamin's theory, combining impulses from post-structuralism, feminism, cultural anthropology and psychoanalysis.

Author Biography

Sigrid Weigel is Professor of German Literature at the University of Zurich.

Table of Contents

Translator's note
Introduction: Distorted similitude - Benjamin as theorist
Benjamin's 'world of universal and integral actuality'	p. 3
'Body- and image-space': Traces through Benjamin's writings	p. 16
Communicating tubes: Michel Foucault and Walter Benjamin	p. 30
Thought-images: A re-reading of the 'angel of history'	p. 49
Towards a female dialectic of enlightenment: Julia Kristeva and Walter Benjamin	p. 63
From images to dialectical images: The significance of gender difference in Benjamin's writings	p. 80
The 'other' in allegory: A prehistory of the allegory of modernity in the Baroque	p. 95
From topography to writing: Benjamin's concept of memory	p. 109
The reading that takes the place of translation: The psychoanalytical reformulation of the theory of language magic	p. 128
Readability: Benjamin's place in contemporary theoretical approaches to pictorial and corporeal memory	p. 146
Non-philosophical amazement - writing in amazement: Benjamin's position in the aftermath of the holocaust	p. 158
Notes	p. 175
Bibliography	p. 191
Index	p. 199
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