Benjamin's Figures (eBook)

Preface - Madeleine Kasten List of Abbreviations DIALETICS AT A STANDSTILL: BENJAMIN'S "DENKBILDER" Benjamin's Thougt-Images in Einbahnstraße - Gustan Asselbergs Sichtlich sich verbergend: Die Autor-Figur des Passagen-Werks - Wolfram Malte Fues LIMINAL FIGURES: CHILD AND FLANEUR The Child at the Threshold: Walter Benjamin's Berliner Kindheit um 1900 - Corina Stan The Flâneur and the Socio-Economic Critique - Nassima Sahraoui UNSIGHTLY FIGURES Walter Benjamin's Figures of De-Figuration: The Barbarian, the Destructive Character, and the Monster - Sami R. Khatib ANGELS AND HISTORIANS Closing Time: Benjamin, Temporality, and the Problem of Political Organization - Bennett Carpenter Of Fish and Men: Benjamin's Allegorist and the Meaning of Life - Madeleine Kasten Walter Benjamin on Charlie Chaplin: The Rehabilitation of the Allegorical in Modernity - Daniel Mourenza THE NARRATOR AND THE POLITICS OF SENSES "Drawing o an Unlikely Source": The "Erzähler", the Islamic Revival, and Benjamin's Philosophy of Language - Ton Groeneweg TRANSLATION BETWEEN FOREIGNNESS AND KINSHIP Bleakness in the Age of Google: Walter Benjamin and the Possibility of Redemptive Translation - Orr Scharf Walter Benjamin's Translator/Critic as a Model for Transcultural Thought and Practice - Gisela Brinker-Gabler THE TASK OF CRITIC Lektüre als Opfer: Der Kritiker in "Wider ein Meisterwerk" und dem Trauerspielbuch - Anna Wotkowicz THE RIGHTEOUS AS MEDIATOR OF LINGUISTIC EXPERIENCE "Im Anfang war das Wort": Von Adam, zwei Bäumen und dem Gerechten - Gerard Visser About the Authors Indices