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

The last decade has seen a new wave of interest in philosophical and theoretical circles in the writings of Walter Benjamin. In Body-and Image-Space Sigrid Weigel, one of Germany's leading feminist theorists and a renowned commentator on the work of Walter Benjamin, argues that the reception of his work has so far overlooked a crucial aspect of his thought - his use of images. Weigel shows that it is precisely his practice of thinking in images that holds the key to understanding the full complexity, richness and topicality of Benjamin's theory.

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

The last decade has seen a new wave of interest in philosophical and theoretical circles in the writings of Walter Benjamin. In Body-and Image-Space Sigrid Weigel, one of Germany's leading feminist theorists and a renowned commentator on the work of Walter Benjamin, argues that the reception of his work has so far overlooked a crucial aspect of his thought - his use of images. Weigel shows that it is precisely his practice of thinking in images that holds the key to understanding the full complexity, richness and topicality of Benjamin's theory.

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

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

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

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

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The last decade has seen a new wave of interest in philosophical and theoretical circles in the writings of Walter Benjamin. In Body-and Image-Space Sigrid Weigel, one of Germany's leading feminist theorists and a renowned commentator on the work of Walter Benjamin, argues that the reception of his work has so far overlooked a crucial aspect of his thought - his use of images. Weigel shows that it is precisely his practice of thinking in images that holds the key to understanding the full complexity, richness and topicality of Benjamin's theory.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781134837519
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 12/16/2003
Series: Warwick Studies in European Philosophy
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 224
File size: 451 KB

About the Author

Sigrid Weigel

Table of Contents

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,
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