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Walter Benjamin and Political Theology
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Walter Benjamin and Political Theology
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Tracing Walter Benjamin's convergences with, and divergences from, influential German legal theorist Carl Schmitt, this edited collection contextualizes Benjamin's thinking in the intellectual currents of his time, while also placing him in dialogue with traditions and thinkers from antiquity to the present. At stake is whether Benjamin presents the possibility of a distinctive political theology-a question which the collection addresses without collapsing the tensions internal to Benjamin's thought.
Benjamin's thought has been a touchstone, explicitly or implicitly, in numerous efforts to conceive of a 'new' political theology that is not anchored in legitimizing and preserving power, but in justice and liberation. Benjamin interrogates the political-theological complex from what may be construed as a vantage point opposed to Schmitt. Whereas Schmitt excavates the theological elements in modernity in order to shore up liberalism's illiberal inheritance, Benjamin roots out these latent structures in order to dissolve them and liberate us from their oppressive legacy. This volume's multifaceted contributions explore why Benjamin has been such a fertile source for thinking about political theology beyond â and often against â Schmitt. Benjamin indicates how existing political theologies can be challenged or expanded. This book accordingly makes a wide range of relevant work available for study whilst also opening new perspectives on Benjamin's Ĺuvre.
Benjamin's thought has been a touchstone, explicitly or implicitly, in numerous efforts to conceive of a 'new' political theology that is not anchored in legitimizing and preserving power, but in justice and liberation. Benjamin interrogates the political-theological complex from what may be construed as a vantage point opposed to Schmitt. Whereas Schmitt excavates the theological elements in modernity in order to shore up liberalism's illiberal inheritance, Benjamin roots out these latent structures in order to dissolve them and liberate us from their oppressive legacy. This volume's multifaceted contributions explore why Benjamin has been such a fertile source for thinking about political theology beyond â and often against â Schmitt. Benjamin indicates how existing political theologies can be challenged or expanded. This book accordingly makes a wide range of relevant work available for study whilst also opening new perspectives on Benjamin's Ĺuvre.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Title
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Contra Schmitt: On Sovereignty and Political Theology
- 1 Melancholy Sovereignty and the Politics of Sin
- 2 Sovereignty and Revolutionary Astropolitics: Benjamin, Baroque Trauerspiel, and CalderĂłnâs Life Is a Dream
- 3 Contra Schmitt: Leo Strauss, Walter Benjamin, and Jewish Political Theology
- Part II Critique of Law and Theocracy: Nihilism, Anarchism, and the Justice of Study
- 4 Nihilism as World Politics: Benjaminâs Theology of Entropy
- 5 My Kingdom for a Shirt: Untrammeled Atheism and Anarchism in Benjamin and Kafka
- 6 Study, Sovereignty, and Justice: Benjamin, Scholem, and Agamben
- Part III Fate, Messianic Time, and Messianic Adjustment
- 7 Benjaminâs Concept of Fate
- 8 Fulfilled Time: Benjaminâs Reception of Hermann Cohenâs Idea of Messianism
- 9 Beyond Mysticism and the Apocalypse: Benjaminâs Dislocation of the Messianic
- 10 A Hunchbacked Political Theology: Creaturely Biopolitics as the Self-Sublation of Distorted Life
- List of Contributors
- Index
- Copyright