Walter Benjamin and Theology

Colby Dickinson is Assistant Professor of Theology at Loyola University Chicago.Stéphane Symons is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven, Belgium.

• Preface Introduction Colby Dickinson and Stephane Symons Metaphysics of Transience, Natural and Supernatural Life, Apokatastasis Benjamin's Messianic Metaphysics of Transience Annika Thiem Completion Instead of Revelation: Toward the "Theological-Political Fragment" Peter Fenves Fidelity, Love, Eros: Benjamin's Bi-referential Concept of Life as Developed in "Goethe's Elective Affinities" Sigrid Weigel The Will to Apokatastasis: Media, Experience, and Eschatology in Walter Benjamin's Late Theological Politics Michael W. Jennings Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Influences Walter Benjamin's Jewishness Howard Eiland Benjamin's Natural Theology Howard Caygill Walter Benjamin: A Modern Marcionite? Jacob Taubes Seminar Notes: Walter Benjamin: Theses on the Philosophy of History Jacob Taubes Dislocated Messianism: Modernity, Marxism, and Violence On Benjamin's Baudelaire Giorgio Agamben On Vanishing and Fulfillment Eli Friedlander Rhythms of the Living: Conditions of Critique: On Judith Butler's Reading of Walter Benjamin's "Critique of Violence" Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky One Time Traverses Another: Benjamin's Theological-Political Fragment Judith Butler On Reading Walter Benjamin-From a Christian Perspective Hille Haker List of Contributors Index