
Politics of Benjamin's Kafka
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This book provides a critical assessment of Benjamin's writings on Franz Kafka and of Benjamin's related writings. Eliciting from Benjamin's writings a conception of philosophy that is political in its dissociation from - its becoming renegade in relation to, its philosophic shame about - established laws, norms, and forms, the book compares Benjamin's writings with relevant works by Agamben, Heidegger, Levinas, and others. In relating Benjamin's writings on Kafka to Benjamin's writings on politics, the study delineates a philosophic impetus in literature and argues that this impetus has potential political consequences. Finally, the book is critical of Benjamin's messianism insofar as it is oriented by the anticipated elimination of exceptions and distractions. Exceptions and distractions are, the book argues, precisely what literature, like other arts, brings to the fore. Hence the philosophic, and the political, importance of literature. von Moran, Brendan
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Brendan Moran is Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Calgary, Canada. His publications include a book on Benjamin's early writings, and articles on Benjamin, Agamben, Laruelle, Heidegger, Levinas, and Salomo Friedlaender. He has also co-edited two books with Carlo Salzani, Philosophy and Kafka, and Towards the Critique of Violence: Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben.
- hardcover
- 224 Seiten
- Erschienen 2010
- HOFFMANN UND CAMPE VERLAG GmbH
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- Erschienen 2024
- Random House Audio
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- Erschienen 2007
- Argon Verlag
- Kartoniert
- 205 Seiten
- Erschienen 2014
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