Body-and Image-Space

Autorentext
Sigrid Weigel

Klappentext
The subject of these eleven essays is Walter Benjamin as theorist. It considers his work on thinking in images or UBilddnken, and the relation of this to "the first material of human existence ... the body" is taken as constituting the specificity of his philosophy.

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

Inhalt
1. Gender Images to Dialectical Images, 2. `Body- and Image Space' - Traces through Benjamin's Writings, 3. Psychoanalytic Constellations in Benjamin's Thoughts, 4. Politics of Imagery - Benjamin's Concept of `Aktualitat' ...within contemporary theory, 5. A Female Dialectic of Enlightenment - Kristeva and Benjamin, 6. Communicated Ducts: Foucault and Benjamin, 7. The `Other' in Allegory - A Forhistory of Modernity in Baroque, 8. Legibility - the Memory of Body and Image in Theory,

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