Madeleine Kasten & Rico Sneller 
Benjamin’s Figures [PDF ebook] 
Dialogues on the Vocation of the Humanities

Preface – Madeleine Kasten
List of Abbreviations
DIALETICS AT A STANDSTILL: BENJAMIN’S ‘DENKBILDER’
Benjamin’s Thougt-Images in Einbahnstraße – Gustan Asselbergs
Sichtlich sich verbergend: Die Autor-Figur des Passagen-Werks – Wolfram Malte Fues
LIMINAL FIGURES: CHILD AND FLANEUR
The Child at the Threshold: Walter Benjamin’s Berliner Kindheit um 1900 – Corina Stan
The Flâneur and the Socio-Economic Critique – Nassima Sahraoui
UNSIGHTLY FIGURES
Walter Benjamin’s Figures of De-Figuration: The Barbarian, the Destructive Character, and the Monster – Sami R. Khatib
ANGELS AND HISTORIANS
Closing Time: Benjamin, Temporality, and the Problem of Political Organization – Bennett Carpenter
Of Fish and Men: Benjamin’s Allegorist and the Meaning of Life – Madeleine Kasten
Walter Benjamin on Charlie Chaplin: The Rehabilitation of the Allegorical in Modernity – Daniel Mourenza
THE NARRATOR AND THE POLITICS OF SENSES
‘Drawing o an Unlikely Source’: The ‘Erzähler’, the Islamic Revival, and Benjamin’s Philosophy of Language – Ton Groeneweg
TRANSLATION BETWEEN FOREIGNNESS AND KINSHIP
Bleakness in the Age of Google: Walter Benjamin and the Possibility of Redemptive Translation – Orr Scharf
Walter Benjamin’s Translator/Critic as a Model for Transcultural Thought and Practice – Gisela Brinker-Gabler
THE TASK OF CRITIC
Lektüre als Opfer: Der Kritiker in ‘Wider ein Meisterwerk’ und dem Trauerspielbuch – Anna Wotkowicz
THE RIGHTEOUS AS MEDIATOR OF LINGUISTIC EXPERIENCE
‘Im Anfang war das Wort’: Von Adam, zwei Bäumen und dem Gerechten – Gerard Visser
About the Authors
Indices