Walter Benjamin: Self-Reference and Religiosity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333993590)

Walter Benjamin's work represents one of the most radical and controversial responses to the problems of twentieth-century culture and society. This new interpretation analyzes some of the central enigmatic features of his writing, arguing that they result from the co-presence of religious scepticism and the desire for a religious foundation of social life. Margarete Kohlenbach focuses on the structure of self-reference as an expression of Benjamin's sceptical religiosity and examines its significance in his writing on language, literature and the cinema, as well as history, politics and modern technology.

Author: M. Kohlenbach
ISBN-10: 0333993594
ISBN-13: 9780333993590
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 09/06/2002
Pages: 241
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 8.34h x 6.24w x 0.85d