Body-and Image-Space: Re-Reading Walter Benjamin

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ISBN: 9780415109550 | 0415109558
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Copyright: 10/21/1996

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Assembled here for the first time in English translation, Sigrid Weigel and Georgina Paul offer illuminating new insights into Benjamin's theory, combining impulses from post-structuralism, feminism, cultural anthropology and psychoanalysis.

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Translator's note
Introduction: Distorted similitude - Benjamin as theorist
Benjamin's 'world of universal and integral actuality'	p. 3
'Body- and image-space': Traces through Benjamin's writings	p. 16
Communicating tubes: Michel Foucault and Walter Benjamin	p. 30
Thought-images: A re-reading of the 'angel of history'	p. 49
Towards a female dialectic of enlightenment: Julia Kristeva and Walter Benjamin	p. 63
From images to dialectical images: The significance of gender difference in Benjamin's writings	p. 80
The 'other' in allegory: A prehistory of the allegory of modernity in the Baroque	p. 95
From topography to writing: Benjamin's concept of memory	p. 109
The reading that takes the place of translation: The psychoanalytical reformulation of the theory of language magic	p. 128
Readability: Benjamin's place in contemporary theoretical approaches to pictorial and corporeal memory	p. 146
Non-philosophical amazement - writing in amazement: Benjamin's position in the aftermath of the holocaust	p. 158
Notes	p. 175
Bibliography	p. 191
Index	p. 199
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