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Walter Benjamin: Self-Reference and Religiosity

Walter Benjamin: Self-Reference and Religiosity

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Series: New Perspectives in German Political Studies

PhilosophyReligion General

ISBN10: 1349432091
ISBN13: 9781349432097
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Sep 6 2002
Pages: 241
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Walter Benjamin's work represents one of the most radical and controversial responses to the problems of twentieth-century culture and society. This new interpretation analyzes some of the central enigmatic features of his writing, arguing that they result from the co-presence of religious scepticism and the desire for a religious foundation of social life. Margarete Kohlenbach focuses on the structure of self-reference as an expression of Benjamin's sceptical religiosity and examines its significance in his writing on language, literature and the cinema, as well as history, politics and modern technology.

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