Politics of Benjamin’s Kafka: Philosophy as Renegade

Brendan Moran is Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Calgary, Canada. His publications include a book on Benjamin’s early writings, and articles on Benjamin, Agamben, Laruelle, Heidegger, Levinas, and Salomo Friedlaender.  He  has also co-edited two books with Carlo Salzani, Philosophy and Kafka, and Towards the Critique of Violence: Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben.

• 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.