'There is no world of thought that is not a world of language', Walter Benjamin remarked, 'and one only sees in the world what is preconditioned by language'. In this book, Samuel Weber, a leading theorist on literature and media, reveals a new and productive aspect of Benjamin's thought by focusing[...]

The title of this book echoes a phrase used by the "Washington Post" to describe the American attempt to kill Saddam Hussein at the start of the war against Iraq. Its theme is the notion of targeting (skopos) as the name of an intentional structure in which the subject tries to confirm its invulnera[...]