Body and Image Space: Re-Reading Walter Benjamin
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The last decade has seen a new wave of interest in philosophical and theoretical circles in the writings of Walter Benjamin. In Body-and Image-Space Sigrid Weigel, one of Germany's leading feminist theorists and a renowned commentator on the work of Walter Benjamin, argues that the reception of his work has so far overlooked a crucial aspect of his thought - his use of images. Weigel shows that it is precisely his practice of thinking in images that holds the key to understanding the full complexity, richness and topicality of Benjamin's theory.
Translator's noteIntroduction: Distorted similitude - Benjamin as theorist1Benjamin's 'world of universal and integral actuality'32'Body- and image-space': Traces through Benjamin's writings163Communicating tubes: Michel Foucault and Walter Benjamin304Thought-images: A re-reading of the 'angel of history'495Towards a female dialectic of enlightenment: Julia Kristeva and Walter Benjamin636From images to dialectical images: The significance of gender difference in Benjamin's writings807The 'other' in allegory: A prehistory of the allegory of modernity in the Baroque958From topography to writing: Benjamin's concept of memory1099The reading that takes the place of translation: The psychoanalytical reformulation of the theory of language magic12810Readability: Benjamin's place in contemporary theoretical approaches to pictorial and corporeal memory14611Non-philosophical amazement - writing in amazement: Benjamin's position in the aftermath of the holocaust158Notes175Bibliography191Index199
