Special Issue | I | 2017
Discontinuous Infinities
Walter Benjamin and Philosophy
Edited by Jan Sieber and Sebastian Truskolaski
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Credits: Jula Radt-Cohn: Portraitkopf Walter Benjamin, etwa 1926 | Photo: Sasha Stone | Walter Benjamin Archiv, Akademie der Künste, Berlin | Design: Jan Sieber
This special issue of Anthropology & Materialism is dedicated to the philosophy of Walter Benjamin. On the one hand, the pieces collected here explore Benjamin’s relation to a range of canonical figures, whose work significantly influenced his own thinking (Kant, Fichte, Marx, Cohen, Husserl, Freud etc.); on the other hand, they put his philosophy into relation with a range of more recent thinkers (Saussure, Blanchot, Lacan, Derrida, Esposito, Hardt and Negri etc.). All the while, the volume seeks to cast into relief an image of Benjamin’s own philosophical programme, its limits and its possibilities, to probe the actuality of his thinking, and to assert his philosophy’s enduring significance at a time of renewed political crisis.
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Articles
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The Task of the Philosopher [Full text]In Place of an Introduction
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The Pure Act of Recollection [Full text]Walter Benjamin and Maurice Blanchot Reading Proust
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Eccentric Bodies [Full text]From Phenomenology to Marxism – Walter Benjamin's Reflections on Embodiment
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The World of Striving [Full text]Walter Benjamin’s ‘Notes to a Study on the Category of Justice’
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Critique is a Philosophy of the Spirit [Full text]Comparing Benjamin and Fichte’s Programmes for the Coming Philosophy
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Where the Past Was, There History Shall Be [Full text]Benjamin, Marx, and the “Tradition of the Oppressed”
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A Crystal of Time [Full text](Political) Reflections towards a History of the Now: Benjamin and Derrida
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Benjamin, Negativity, and De-vitalized Life [Full text]
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Die Willkür der Zeichen [Full text]Zu einem sprachphilosophischen Grundmotiv Walter Benjamins
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