Thinking in constellations Walter Benjamin in the humanities / edited by Nassima Sahraoui and Caroline Sauter.

Other author Sahraoui, Nassima.
Other author Sauter, Caroline.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNewcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
Descriptionxviii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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Contents From Kant's starry skies to Kafka's Odradek : Benjamin and the quantum of history / Eric Kligerman -- The name as the navel : on refinding things we never had / Adam Lipszyc -- Constellation and expression in Leibniz and Benjamin / Paula Schwebel -- Constellation and configuration : language and reading in the "epistemo-critical prologue" / Tom Vandeputte -- The history of production and the production of history : Benjamin on natural history and dialectical images / Yanik Avila -- The poetics of the rag collector : on Benjamin's motifs of collecting and the collective of rags / Saein Park -- Distracted images : Ablenkung, Zerstreuung, Konstellation / Benjamin Brewer -- Surviving civilization with mickey mouse and a laugh : a posthuman constellation / Carlo Salzani -- The gothic third world : photography and the poetics of exclusion / Javier Padilla -- "Ins Romantische zurück und ins Politische voran" : Benjamin and Sebald / Nikolai Preuschoff.
General note"The idea and initial impulse for this collection of essays on Walter Benjamin goes back to a seminar at the American Comparative Literature Association's Annual Meeting at the University of Toronto in 2013."-- Page xvii.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
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LCCN 2020445190
ISBN1527509222 (hardback)
ISBN9781527509221 (hardback)