Body-and Image-Space

Name: Body-and Image-Space
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Re-Reading Walter Benjamin

By: Sigrid Weigel, Georgina Paul (Translator)

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Hardcover | 26 September 1996 | Edition Number 1

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224 Pages

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21.6 x 13.8 x 1.91

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The last decade has seen renewed interest among philosophers and theorists 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. Bilddenken, or thinking in images, and its relation to the body, 'the first material of human existence', are central to Benjamin's work. This approach, Weigel argues, resembles psychoanalytical modes of observation and she suggests that there also are affinities between Benjamin's thought and contemporary French theory, notably the work of Foucault and Kristeva. Focusing on those parallels, the author demonstrates the productivity of Benjamin's theoretical approach for contemporary gender studies, cultural theory and philosophy. At the same time, her reading also reestablishes the buried links between early critical theory and post-structura between German high modernism and French postmodernist theory. Body-and Image-Space will be invaluable to anyone interested in gender theory, post-structuralism, cultural anthropology and philosophy.

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"With its stunningly novel reading of the fabled angel of history, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in Benjamin's "Aktualitaet today. Lucidly argues and luminously presented, it explores Benjamin's thinking and writing-in-images in a widening range of concentric circles ... A major contribution to historical scholarship and contemporary critical debates."-Andreas Huyssen, Columbia University

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