Politics of Benjamin’s Kafka: Philosophy as Renegade

Brendan Moran (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XIX, 350 Seiten

2019
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-10145-9 (ISBN)

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This book provides a critical assessment of Benjamin's writings on Franz Kafka and of Benjamin's related writings. Eliciting from Benjamin's writings a conception of philosophy that is political in its dissociation from - its becoming renegade in relation to, its philosophic shame about - established laws, norms, and forms, the book compares Benjamin's writings with relevant works by Agamben, Heidegger, Levinas, and others. In relating Benjamin's writings on Kafka to Benjamin's writings on politics, the study delineates a philosophic impetus in literature and argues that this impetus has potential political consequences. Finally, the book is critical of Benjamin's messianism insofar as it is oriented by the anticipated elimination of exceptions and distractions. Exceptions and distractions are, the book argues, precisely what literature, like other arts, brings to the fore. Hence the philosophic, and the political, importance of literature.

Brendan Moran is Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Calgary, Canada. His publications include a book on Benjamin's early writings, and articles on Benjamin, Agamben, Laruelle, Heidegger, Levinas, and Salomo Friedlaender. He has also co-edited two books with Carlo Salzani, Philosophy and Kafka, and Towards the Critique of Violence: Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben.

Introduction.- PART I. INHUMANLY WISE SHAME.- 1. Gesture of Philosophy.- 2. Historico-Philosophic Shame.- 3. Unmythic Wisdom.- 4. Foolishness of Philosophy.- 5. Prophecy of Shame.- Part II. ANXIETY AND ATTENTIVENESS.- 6. Anxiety.- 7. Study.- 8. Distractedly Attentive.- 9. Anxious Friendliness as Physical Attentiveness.- PART III POLITICS.- 10. Exception and Decision.- 11. In the Epic 'Vorwelt'.- 12. Philosophy, Literature, Politics.- Bibliography.-Acknowledgements.- Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	21.01.2019
Zusatzinfo	XIX, 350 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	486 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Kafka • Literature • messianism • Politics • Walter Benjamin
ISBN-10	3-030-10145-2 / 3030101452
ISBN-13	978-3-030-10145-9 / 9783030101459
Zustand	Neuware