Walter Benjamin and Political Theology

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

AvBrendan Moran,Paula Schwebel,Canada) Moran, Brendan (University of Calgary,Canada) Schwebel, Paula (Toronto Metropolitan University,Andrew Benjamin

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Tracing Walter Benjamin's convergences with, and divergences from, influential German legal theorist Carl Schmitt, this edited collection contextualizes Benjamin’s thinking in the intellectual currents of his time, while also placing him in dialogue with traditions and thinkers from antiquity to the present. At stake is whether Benjamin presents the possibility of a distinctive political theology—a question which the collection addresses without collapsing the tensions internal to Benjamin’s thought.Benjamin’s thought has been a touchstone, explicitly or implicitly, in numerous efforts to conceive of a ‘new’ political theology that is not anchored in legitimizing and preserving power, but in justice and liberation. Benjamin interrogates the political-theological complex from what may be construed as a vantage point opposed to Schmitt. Whereas Schmitt excavates the theological elements in modernity in order to shore up liberalism’s illiberal inheritance, Benjamin roots out these latent structures in order to dissolve them and liberate us from their oppressive legacy. This volume’s multifaceted contributions explore why Benjamin has been such a fertile source for thinking about political theology beyond – and often against – Schmitt. Benjamin indicates how existing political theologies can be challenged or expanded. This book accordingly makes a wide range of relevant work available for study whilst also opening new perspectives on Benjamin’s œuvre.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-06-13
Mått164 x 238 x 20 mm
Vikt540 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieWalter Benjamin Studies
Antal sidor272
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350284340

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AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction, Brendan Moran (University of Calgary, Canada) and Paula Schwebel (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)Part I: Contra Schmitt: On Sovereignty and Political Theology1. Melancholy Sovereignty and the Politics of Sin, Paula Schwebel (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)2. Sovereignty and Revolutionary Astropolitics: Benjamin, Baroque Trauerspiel, and Calderón’s Life Is a Dream, Miguel Vatter (Flinders University, Australia)3. Contra Schmitt: Leo Strauss, Walter Benjamin, and Jewish Political Theology, Leora Batnitzky (Princeteon University, USA) and Vivian Liska (University of Antwerp, Belgium)Part II: Critique of Law and Theocracy: Nihilism, Anarchism, and the Justice of Study 4. Nihilism as World Politics: Benjamin’s Theology of Entropy, Agata Bielik-Robson (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)5. My Kingdom for a Shirt: Untrammeled Atheism and Anarchism in Benjamin and Kafka, James Martel (San Francisco State University, USA)6. Study, Sovereignty, and Justice: Benjamin, Scholem, and Agamben, Brendan Moran (University of Calgary, Canada)Part III: Fate, Messianic Time, and Messianic Adjustment7. Benjamin’s Concept of Fate, Howard Eiland (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)8. Fulfilled Time: Benjamin’s Reception of Hermann Cohen’s Idea of Messianism, Tamara Tagliacozzo (Università di Roma Tre, Italy)9. Beyond Mysticism and the Apocalypse: Benjamin’s Dislocation of the Messianic, Sami Khatib (Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Germany)10. A Hunchbacked Political Theology: Creaturely Biopolitics as the Self-Sublation of Distorted Life, Carlo Salzani (Innsbruck University, Austria)List of Contributors Index

This volume persuasively shows us that political theology does not belong exclusively to authoritarian thinking, but also to its opposite. Those writings in which Benjamin departed from the authoritarian thinking of Schmitt have exercised a deep influence on contemporary political thought, and given the considerable challenges in accessing these texts, the work of these scholars helps to unearth a crucial vocabulary for the critique of authoritarianism in all its forms.

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