The last decade has seen a new wave of interest in philosophical and theoretical circles in the writings of Walter Benjamin. In Body-and Image-Space Sigrid Weigel, one of Germany's leading feminist theorists and a renowned commentator on the work of Walter Benjamin, argues that the reception of his [...]
Arguing that the importance of painting and other visual art for Benjamin's epistemology has yet to be appreciated, Weigel undertakes the first systematic analysis of their significance to his thought. She does so by exploring Benjamin's dialectics of secularization, an approach that allows Benjamin[...]
Unhintergehbare Differenzen wie die zwischen Recht und Gerechtigkeit, Klage und Anklage, Kreatur und Gesetz, Schöpfung und Weltgericht erhellen sich bei Benjamin aus der gleichzeitigen Entfernung von und Orientierung an Begriffen der Offenbarung. Daraus wird auch die Nähe seines Bilddenkens, Grund[...]