With his powerful thought image of the constellation, Walter Benjamin provides a method for the core practices of the Humanities: reading, writing, and thinking. This collection of provocative essays demonstrates how thinking in constellations with Walter Benjamin leads us towards a new understanding of the critical task of the Humanities today: it goes beyond disciplinary boundaries and challenges assumptions of linearity, coherence, and progression inherent in our scholarly praxis. The volume brings some of the most articulate young voices in international Benjamin scholarship together, and takes an interdisciplinary approach, covering wide-ranging fields of knowledge – quantum physics, postcolonial studies, natural philosophy, psychoanalysis, film theory, literature, and the arts. Benjamin’s texts are re-considered in light of thinkers and poets, such as Theodor W. Adorno, Sigmund Freud, Gottfried E. Leibniz, W. G. Sebald, Franz Kafka, or Carlos Martinez Rivas. The critical potential of constellations in Benjamin’s work and beyond will be of the highest interest for researchers and students in all areas of the Humanities.
Nassima Sahraoui & Caroline Sauter
Thinking in Constellations [PDF ebook]
Walter Benjamin in the Humanities
Thinking in Constellations [PDF ebook]
Walter Benjamin in the Humanities
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Format PDF ● Pages 246 ● ISBN 9781527515673 ● Editor Nassima Sahraoui & Caroline Sauter ● Publisher Cambridge Scholars Publishing ● Published 2018 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 6454502 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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