Politics of Benjamin’s Kafka: Philosophy as Renegade

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Politics of Benjamin’s Kafka: Philosophy as Renegade

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Politics of Benjamin’s Kafka: Philosophy as Renegade

Brendan Moran

Philosophy / Aesthetics

Reflects on Benjamin’s specifically “philosophical” politics through the lens of his work on Kafka - ths first study to do this

Criticizes aspects of Benjamin's messianism that envision redemption as the complete overcoming of distortion

Shows that, for Benjamin’s Kafkan outlook, the philosophic task includes recalling all are part of the “world theatre.” 


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.

Publication Date: 04 January 2019
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 9783030101459
Format: Paperback softback
Page Count: 350

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