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Politics of Benjamin's Kafkaphilosop...

Benjamin, Walter, (1892-1940)

Politics of Benjamin's Kafkaphilosophy as renegade /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Politics of Benjamin's Kafkaby Brendan Moran.
Reminder of title:	philosophy as renegade /
Author:	Moran, Brendan.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2018.
Description:	xix, 350 p. :digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Philosophy.
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72011-1
ISBN:	9783319720111$q(electronic bk.)

Politics of Benjamin's Kafkaphilosophy as renegade /
Moran, Brendan.

Politics of Benjamin's Kafkaphilosophy as renegade /[electronic resource] :by Brendan Moran. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2018. - xix, 350 p. :digital ;24 cm.

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.

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.

ISBN: 9783319720111$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-72011-1doiSubjects--Personal Names:

434876
Kafka, Franz,
1883-1924--Interviews.Subjects--Topical Terms:

176573
Philosophy.

LC Class. No.: PT2621.A26 / M673 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 833.912

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