Sparks Will Fly
Benjamin and Heidegger
1st Edition
Published on 23. February 2015
305 pages
978-1-4384-5506-8 (ISBN)
Description
Collected essays consider points of affinity and friction between Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
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Reflowable
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ISBN-13
978-1-4384-5506-8 (9781438455068)
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Persons
Andrew Benjamin is Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Thought at Monash University, Australia and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and the Humanities at Kingston University, London. He is the author of several books, including Working with Walter Benjamin: Recovering a Political Philosophy. Dimitris Vardoulakis is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Sovereignty and Its Other: Toward the Dejustification of Violence.
Content
Abbreviations
Introduction: "Sparks Will Fly"
Andrew Benjamin and Dimitris Vardoulakis
Part I. Knowledge
1. Entanglement-Of Benjamin with Heidegger
Peter Fenves
2. Critique and the Thing: Benjamin and Heidegger
Gerhard Richter
Part II. Experience
3. Stimmung: Heidegger and Benjamin
Ilit Ferber
4. Commodity Fetishism and the Gaze
A. Kiarina Kordela
Part III. Time
5. Monad and Time: Reading Leibniz with Heidegger and Benjamin
Paula Schwebel
6. Time and Task: Benjamin and Heidegger Showing the Present
Andrew Benjamin
Part IV: Hölderlin
7. Who Was Friedrich Hölderlin? Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, and the Poet
Antonia Engel
8. Sobriety, Intoxication, Hyperbology: Benjamin and Heidegger Reading Hölderlin
Joanna Hodge
Part V. Politics
9. Beyond Revolution: Benjamin and Heidegger on Violence and Power
Krzysztof Ziarek
10. A Matter of Immediacy: The Political Ontology of the Artwork in Benjamin and Heidegger
Dimitris Vardoulakis
11. Politics of the Useless: The Work of Art in Benjamin and Heidegger
David Ferris
Biographical Notes
Index
Introduction: "Sparks Will Fly"
Andrew Benjamin and Dimitris Vardoulakis
Part I. Knowledge
1. Entanglement-Of Benjamin with Heidegger
Peter Fenves
2. Critique and the Thing: Benjamin and Heidegger
Gerhard Richter
Part II. Experience
3. Stimmung: Heidegger and Benjamin
Ilit Ferber
4. Commodity Fetishism and the Gaze
A. Kiarina Kordela
Part III. Time
5. Monad and Time: Reading Leibniz with Heidegger and Benjamin
Paula Schwebel
6. Time and Task: Benjamin and Heidegger Showing the Present
Andrew Benjamin
Part IV: Hölderlin
7. Who Was Friedrich Hölderlin? Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, and the Poet
Antonia Engel
8. Sobriety, Intoxication, Hyperbology: Benjamin and Heidegger Reading Hölderlin
Joanna Hodge
Part V. Politics
9. Beyond Revolution: Benjamin and Heidegger on Violence and Power
Krzysztof Ziarek
10. A Matter of Immediacy: The Political Ontology of the Artwork in Benjamin and Heidegger
Dimitris Vardoulakis
11. Politics of the Useless: The Work of Art in Benjamin and Heidegger
David Ferris
Biographical Notes
Index
