Sparks Will Fly

Andrew Benjamin is Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Thought at Monash University, Australia and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and the Humanities at Kingston University, London. He is the author of several books, including Working with Walter Benjamin: Recovering a Political Philosophy. Dimitris Vardoulakis is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Sovereignty and Its Other: Toward the Dejustification of Violence.

• AbbreviationsIntroduction: "Sparks Will Fly"Andrew Benjamin and Dimitris VardoulakisPart I. Knowledge 1. Entanglement–Of  Benjamin with HeideggerPeter Fenves2. Critique and the Thing: Benjamin and HeideggerGerhard RichterPart II. Experience 3. Stimmung: Heidegger and BenjaminIlit Ferber4. Commodity Fetishism and the GazeA. Kiarina KordelaPart III. Time 5. Monad and Time: Reading Leibniz with Heidegger and BenjaminPaula Schwebel6. Time and Task: Benjamin and Heidegger Showing the PresentAndrew BenjaminPart IV: Hölderlin 7. Who Was Friedrich Hölderlin? Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, and the PoetAntonia Engel8. Sobriety, Intoxication, Hyperbology: Benjamin and Heidegger Reading HölderlinJoanna HodgePart V. Politics 9. Beyond Revolution: Benjamin and Heidegger on Violence and PowerKrzysztof Ziarek10. A Matter of Immediacy: The Political Ontology of the Artwork in Benjamin and HeideggerDimitris Vardoulakis11. Politics of the Useless: The Work of Art in Benjamin and HeideggerDavid FerrisBiographical NotesIndex

"…makes a valuable contribution to both Heideggerian and Benjaminian scholarship by bringing to light important connections and points of conflict." — CHOICE