Walter Benjamin's Other History

Long considered to be an impenetrable, hermetic treatise, Walter Benjamin'sThe Origin of German Tragic Dramahas rarely received the attention it deserves as a key text, central to a full understanding of his work. In this critically acclaimed study, distinguished Benjamin scholar Beatrice Hanssen unlocks the philosophical and ethical dimensions of his thought with great clarity and sophisitication.

Acknowledgments
Note on Translation
Abbreviations
Introduction	p. 1
Toward A New Theory of Natural History	p. 9
Adorno and Benjamin: Against Historicity	p. 13
The Epistemo-Critical Prologue Reconsidered	p. 24
The Turn to Natural History	p. 49
The Aesthetics of Transience	p. 66
Natural and Sacred History	p. 82
Of Stones, Animals, Human Beings, and Angels	p. 103
Limits of Humanity	p. 108
Benjamin's Unmensch: The Politics of Real Humanism	p. 114
The Mythical Origins of the Law	p. 127
Kafka's Animals	p. 137
The Response to the Kreatur	p. 150
Postscript	p. 163
Notes	p. 167
Bibliography	p. 193
Index	p. 203
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