...Tyson E. Lewis This article contributes to the growing literature on Walter Benjamin as an educational philosopher. In particular, it reassesses the claim made by prominent Benjaminian scholars that education can be defined as a form of awakening. To further develop this central educational claim...

... and literal expressions—the latter standing not far from the broken 10. Adorno, “Notes on Kafka,” 212. 11. Adorno, “Heine the Wound,” 208. 58 Reflections on Suffering mirror of the former—awaken from the slumber of figurative, ornamental lan- guage and regain the consciousness of suffering...

... Undeterred by moral questions, Freud takes direct aim at the Aristotelian thesis underwriting the entire debate and writes, in his Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood: “So far as we know, the curiosity [Wissbegierde] of children of this age does not awaken spon- taneously.”6...

... theory that could inspire practice. As the above passage from Minima Moralia suggests, Ador- no’s longing to recover utopia—in Miguel Abensour’s words, “the other side of history,” the other side of suffering 8—as a principle of historical action is nostalgic, insofar as the “awakening” of thought...

... with an aura at a particular time and place. No doubt this aura, too, is vulnerable to decay, but the work continues to awaken new thoughts well after the aura has dissolved. We will never be done reading Aesthetic Theory . It is admittedly the case for any work of philosophical importance that the task...

... energetic markers. Nev- ertheless, I learned from it, for the first time, what architecture is. To this day I do not know whether the impression is simply due to the fact that it was the abbey building that awakened me to the essence of style, or whether, in its proportions, with their renunciation...

...) and actual personal deployment that at times reaches the limits of physical strain.” “2. Through practical work, new visual and acoustic—in short, sensual—dimensions should be opened up; film should serve as a school for seeing, an instrument for awakening awareness and insight. . . . Whoever takes...

...- distic line of attack? Whom does he “invite in,” and who is “not admitted”? What signals is he emitting, what kind of attention is awakened, which wishes are satisfied? One clue points to the narrative orchestration of the first part ofMein Kampf. In a key passage, Hitler addresses his...

... as immemorial and eternal. Dia- lectical images are constellated between alienated things and incoming and disappearing meaning—are instantiated in the moment of indifference between death and meaning. While things in appearance are awakened to what is newest, death transforms...

...: is not progression but image, suddenly emergent [sprunghaft Only dialectical images are genuine images (that is, not archaic); and the place where one encounters them is language. Awakening.10 Kluge’s use of images in this collection enacts the relationship and balance between memory and oblivion...

... Schriften, 11:285. 172  Wounded Modernism old as memory itself. Apart from the occasion when Tristan awakens to the sound of the shepherd’s pipe there is no other scene where Wagner masters so completely the stratum of the dream-world, which elsewhere the trombones vainly...

... versatility, both in substance and in style. That his extended oeuvre has awakened academic interest among anglophones is evidenced by special journal issues, of which the latest was the Journal of the History of Ideas , devoted to the fiftieth anniversary of Legitimacy of the Modern Age , which remains...

.... Louis P. Blond 47 between human beings and the world, requires the activity of loving the neighbor to be grounded or conditioned by a fully awakened human soul and hence by the love of God. In my analysis, this would denote the need for human temporality to externalize (or further externalize...

... the world because, having fallen under the dominion of a rebellious power, it is no longer habitable by the god. Given the world’s godforsaken condition, how is salvation for humanity possible? The gnostic answer, as the name indicates, focuses on an awakening of a latent knowledge activated through...

... Selikovsky Filmproduktion. Figure 2. A portrait of a woman in a kitchen in Good News. Hans Selikovsky Filmproduktion. Seidl has explained the impetus behind Good News : “I wasn’t interested in making a film to expose the machinations of a newspaper conglomerate, one intended solely to awaken viewers...

... the consciousness of the proletariat is able to point out the road along which the dialectics of history is objectively impelled, but which it cannot travel unaided, will the consciousness of the proletariat awaken to the consciousness of the process” ( HCC , 197). The densest formulation of what it means...

.... This situation Otto calls a mysterium. Examined through conceptual and rational 13. A more peculiar example is Otto’s guideline for the reading of his book. He requests that the reader make introspection into the experience of religious excitement. Otto bids anybody who cannot awaken these feelings...

... Wagner’s Rienzi Hitler recognized the “genius” of “Dr. Lueger.”24 Wagner’s opera awakened Hitler’s political sensibilities to the advantages of charismatic, as opposed to traditional, forms of leadership—a lesson he evidently internalized and heeded for the rest of his life. The political...

..., having her bound by servants and forcing her assembled suitors to kill her. Freed from his madness by her death, the distraught husband is quickly dispatched by the suitors, who unceremoniously defenestrate him. The hallucination having cul- minated in its fatal end, the party awakens...

... on music at the most with an uncertain relevance. A new approach to the thinker seemed in the air. But it failed to materialize. During the 1990s the news reached the Continent that in the United States a lively interest in Adorno had been awakened. Certainly, several anthologies were edited, works...