Walter Benjamin and the Actuality of Critique

Essays on Violence and Experience

Carlo Salzani (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

215 Seiten

2021 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-7168-6 (ISBN)

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The striking actuality of Walter Benjamin's 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 Benjamin's 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.

Carlo Salzani is a Research Fellow at the Messerli Research Institute of the University of Vienna, Austria. His research interests include biopolitics, posthumanism, and animal studies.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.09.2021
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
ISBN-10	1-5275-7168-8 / 1527571688
ISBN-13	978-1-5275-7168-6 / 9781527571686
Zustand	Neuware