Politics of Benjamin's Kafka: Philosophy as Renegade

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Moran, Brendan (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Aesthetics.; Political philosophy.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Political Philosophy.; Twentieth-Century Literature.

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 abo...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.