Walter Benjamin and Theology.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Colby Dickinson and Stéphane Symons -- METAPHYSICS OF TRANSIENCE, NATURAL AND SUPERNATURAL LIFE, AND APOKATASTASIS -- Benjamin's Messianic Metaphysics of Transience -- Completion Instead of Revelation: Toward the "Theological-Political Fragment -- Fidelity, Love, Eros: Benjamin's Bireferential Concept of Life as Developed in "Goethe's Elective Affinities -- The Will to Apokatastasis: Media, Experience, and Eschatology in Walter Benjamin's Late Theological Politics -- HISTORICAL, RELIGIOUS, AND PHILOSOPHICAL INFLUENCES -- Walter Benjamin's Jewishness -- Benjamin's Natural Theology -- Walter Benjamin-A Modern Marcionite? Scholem's Benjamin Interpretation Reexamined -- Seminar Notes on Walter Benjamin's "Theses on the Philosophy of History -- DISLOCATED MESSIANISM: MODERNITY, MARXISM, AND VIOLENCE -- On Benjamin's Baudelaire -- On Vanishing and Fulfillment -- Rhythms of the Living, Conditions of Critique: On Judith Butler's Reading of Walter Benjamin's "Critique of Violence -- One Time Traverses Another: Benjamin's "Theological-Political Fragment -- Walter Benjamin and Christian Critical Ethics-A Comment -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Benjamin's relationship to theological matters has been less observed than it should. Walter Benjamin and Theology brings together some of the world's most renowned experts to reassess the stake theology has in Benjamin's writings, aiming for nothing less than the beginning of a new phase in Anglophone Benjamin scholarship.

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