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1 online resource (viii, 363 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
"Appendix: Walter Benjamin's "Seagulls" : a translation"--Page [325]-326. |
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"Seagulls" translated from the German. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Benjamin's -abilities -- Prehistory: Kant, Hölderlin-et cetera -- Criticizability-calculability -- Impart-ability: language as medium -- Translatability I: following (Nachfolge) -- Translatability II: afterlife -- Citability-of gesture -- Ability and style -- An afterlife of -abilities: Derrida -- Legibilities -- Genealogy of modernity: history, myth, and allegory in Benjamin's Origin of the German Mourning Play -- Awakening -- Talking exception to decision: Walter Benjamin and Carl Schmitt -- Violence and gesture: Agamben reading Benjamin reading Kafka reading Cervantes ... -- Song and glance: Walter Benjamin's secret names (zugewandt-unverwandt) -- "Streets, squares, theaters" : A City on the Move-Walter Benjamin's Paris -- God and the devil-in detail -- Closing the net: "Capitalism as Religion" (Benjamin) -- The Ring as Trauerspiel: reading Wagner with Benjamin and Derrida -- Reading Benjamin -- "Seagulls." |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.
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Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940. |
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Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.
Möwen. English.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Weber, Samuel, 1940- Benjamin's -abilities. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008 9780674028371 0674028376 (DLC) 2007049785 (OCoLC)179801145 |
| ISBN |
9780674033955 (electronic book) |
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0674033957 (electronic book) |
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9780674028371 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0674028376 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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