- List of Abbreviations
- I. Benjamin’s -abilities
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Prehistory: Kant, Hölderlin—et cetera
- 3. Criticizability—Calculability
- 4. Impart-ability: Language as Medium
- 5. Translatability I: Following (Nachfolge)
- 6. Translatability II: Afterlife
- 7. Citability—of Gesture
- 8. Ability and Style
- 9. An Afterlife of -abilities: Derrida
- II. Legibilities
- 10. Genealogy of Modernity: History, Myth, and Allegory in Benjamin’s Origin of the German Mourning Play
- 11. Awakening
- 12. Taking Exception to Decision: Walter Benjamin and Carl Schmitt
- 13. Violence and Gesture: Agamben Reading Benjamin Reading Kafka Reading Cervantes…
- 14. Song and Glance: Walter Benjamin’s Secret Names (zugewandt—unverwandt)
- 15. “Streets, Squares, Theaters”: A City on the Move—Walter Benjamin’s Paris
- 16. God and the Devil—in Detail
- 17. Closing the Net: “Capitalism as Religion” (Benjamin)
- 18. The Ring as Trauerspiel: Reading Wagner with Benjamin and Derrida
- 19. Reading Benjamin
- 20. “Seagulls”
- Appendix. Walter Benjamin’s “Seagulls”: A Translation
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
Benjamin's -abilities
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Publication Date: 04/10/2010
Awards & Accolades
- A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2009
- An Artforum Best Book of 2008
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