Walter Benjamin and Political Theology
eBook - ePub

Walter Benjamin and Political Theology

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Only available on web
eBook - ePub

Walter Benjamin and Political Theology

Book details
Table of contents
Citations

About This Book

Tracing Walter Benjamin's convergences with, and divergences from, influential German legal theorist Carl Schmitt, this edited collection contextualizes Benjamin's thinking in the intellectual currents of his time, while also placing him in dialogue with traditions and thinkers from antiquity to the present. At stake is whether Benjamin presents the possibility of a distinctive political theology-a question which the collection addresses without collapsing the tensions internal to Benjamin's thought. Benjamin's thought has been a touchstone, explicitly or implicitly, in numerous efforts to conceive of a 'new' political theology that is not anchored in legitimizing and preserving power, but in justice and liberation. Benjamin interrogates the political-theological complex from what may be construed as a vantage point opposed to Schmitt. Whereas Schmitt excavates the theological elements in modernity in order to shore up liberalism's illiberal inheritance, Benjamin roots out these latent structures in order to dissolve them and liberate us from their oppressive legacy. This volume's multifaceted contributions explore why Benjamin has been such a fertile source for thinking about political theology beyond – and often against – Schmitt. Benjamin indicates how existing political theologies can be challenged or expanded. This book accordingly makes a wide range of relevant work available for study whilst also opening new perspectives on Benjamin's œuvre.

Frequently asked questions

Simply head over to the account section in settings and click on “Cancel Subscription” - it’s as simple as that. After you cancel, your membership will stay active for the remainder of the time you’ve paid for. Learn more here.
At the moment all of our mobile-responsive ePub books are available to download via the app. Most of our PDFs are also available to download and we're working on making the final remaining ones downloadable now. Learn more here.
Both plans give you full access to the library and all of Perlego’s features. The only differences are the price and subscription period: With the annual plan you’ll save around 30% compared to 12 months on the monthly plan.
We are an online textbook subscription service, where you can get access to an entire online library for less than the price of a single book per month. With over 1 million books across 1000+ topics, we’ve got you covered! Learn more here.
Look out for the read-aloud symbol on your next book to see if you can listen to it. The read-aloud tool reads text aloud for you, highlighting the text as it is being read. You can pause it, speed it up and slow it down. Learn more here.
Yes, you can access Walter Benjamin and Political Theology by Brendan Moran, Paula Schwebel, Brendan Moran,Paula Schwebel in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Philosophy & Political Philosophy. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2024
ISBN
9781350284364
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Political Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. List of Abbreviations
  8. Introduction
  9. Part I Contra Schmitt: On Sovereignty and Political Theology
  10. 1 Melancholy Sovereignty and the Politics of Sin
  11. 2 Sovereignty and Revolutionary Astropolitics: Benjamin, Baroque Trauerspiel, and Calderón’s Life Is a Dream
  12. 3 Contra Schmitt: Leo Strauss, Walter Benjamin, and Jewish Political Theology
  13. Part II Critique of Law and Theocracy: Nihilism, Anarchism, and the Justice of Study
  14. 4 Nihilism as World Politics: Benjamin’s Theology of Entropy
  15. 5 My Kingdom for a Shirt: Untrammeled Atheism and Anarchism in Benjamin and Kafka
  16. 6 Study, Sovereignty, and Justice: Benjamin, Scholem, and Agamben
  17. Part III Fate, Messianic Time, and Messianic Adjustment
  18. 7 Benjamin’s Concept of Fate
  19. 8 Fulfilled Time: Benjamin’s Reception of Hermann Cohen’s Idea of Messianism
  20. 9 Beyond Mysticism and the Apocalypse: Benjamin’s Dislocation of the Messianic
  21. 10 A Hunchbacked Political Theology: Creaturely Biopolitics as the Self-Sublation of Distorted Life
  22. List of Contributors
  23. Index
  24. Copyright