Benjamin's Figures : Dialogues on the Vocation of the Humanities.

Cover -- Titelei -- Impressum -- Contents -- Preface -- Madeleine Kasten -- Dialectics at a Standstill: -- Benjamin's 'Denkbilder' -- Benjamin's Thought-Images in Einbahnstraße -- Gustan Asselbergs -- Sichtlich sich verbergend: -- Die Autor-Figur des Passagen-Werks -- Wolfram Malte Fues -- Liminal Figures: Child and Flâneur -- The Child at the Threshold: -- Walter Benjamin's Berliner Kindheit um 1900 -- Corina Stan -- The Flâneur and 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 -- Benjamin's Angel in Light of Jewish Mysticism -- Rico Sneller -- 'To Make the Continuum of History Explode': -- On the Concept of Time in Walter Benjamin's On the Concept of History and David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas -- Anna F. Köberich -- Die Angel der kleinen Pforte: -- Walter Benjamins Konzept des Eingedenkens und seine Bedeutung für die humanities -- Stefano Marchesoni -- Allegory and the Politics of Representation -- 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 on 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 the Critic.

Lektüre als Opfer: -- Der Kritiker in "Wider ein Meisterwerk" und dem Trauerspielbuch -- Anna Wołkowicz -- 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.

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