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Walter Benjamin and the Actuality of Critique

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The striking actuality of Walter Benjamins work does not rest on a supposed usefulness of his philosophy for current concerns, but rather on the high legibility to which his oeuvre has come in the present. Indeed, this legibility is a function of critique, which unearths the truth-content of a work in a constellation of reading with the present, and assures thereby that the work lives on. Following this methodological tenet, this book approaches Benjamins work with two foci: the actuality of his critique of violence, a central and unavoidable topic in the contemporary political-philosophical debate, and the actuality of his critique of experience, which perhaps is not as conspicuous as that of his critique of violence but constitutes, nonetheless, the bedrock upon which his whole philosophy rests.
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Year:
2021
Edition:
1
Publisher:
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Language:
English
Pages:
215
ISBN 10:
1527571688
ISBN 13:
9781527571686
ISBN:
1527571688,9781527571686

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