Description
The last decade has seen a new wave of interest in philosophical and theoretical circles in the writings of Walter Benjamin. In Body-and Image-Space Sigrid Weigel, one of Germany's leading feminist theorists and a renowned commentator on the work of Walter Benjamin, argues that the reception of his work has so far overlooked a crucial aspect of his thought - his use of images. Weigel shows that it is precisely his practice of thinking in images that holds the key to understanding the full complexity, richness and topicality of Benjamin's theory.
Table of Contents
1. Gender Images to Dialectical Images, 2. `Body- and Image Space' - Traces through Benjamin's Writings, 3. Psychoanalytic Constellations in Benjamin's Thoughts, 4. Politics of Imagery - Benjamin's Concept of `Aktualitat' ...within contemporary theory, 5. A Female Dialectic of Enlightenment - Kristeva and Benjamin, 6. Communicated Ducts: Foucault and Benjamin, 7. The `Other' in Allegory - A Forhistory of Modernity in Baroque, 8. Legibility - the Memory of Body and Image in Theory,
