Search Results for Walter Benjamin

... be imagined within the very terms of that pessimism. Drawing from the work of Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, and Judith Butler, an analysis of the iterated violence that constitutes the political status quo points to an always available opening in which the utopian impulse for an environmental democracy...

... to Agamben.45 In a state of exception everyone's legal protections can be suspended, reducing them to "bare life" [nuda vita], a translation of Walter Benjamin's Blol3es Leben, which does not denotes the mere fact of biological life, but, rather, a life defined by its exclusion within a political community...

... Democracy: Benjamin’s Utopian Moment,” Michael Lipscomb assesses the prospects for environmental democracy in a capitalist order dominated by the violences of instrumental reason. Turning from Theodor Adorno’s unyielding pessimism to Walter Benjamin’s messianic optimism, he calls attention to open spaces...

.... Against scientific digging "into the economic, social, and religious causes" (AR vii), Matthiessen chose Richards's analytic of experience. His project shared this ground with Walter Benjamin's essay on "The Storyteller" (1936) and Sartre's Nausea (1938), both of which lamented the unavailability...

..., worked undercover as a librarian at the Institute of Social Research. Walter Benjamin carried on an intimate (some might say sexually-charged) correspondence with Theodor Adorno's wife Gretel. As a youth, Max Horkheimer wrote erotic fiction about cross-class romance. Theodor Adorno, about the time he...

... Grollios borrows from John Holloway, who provides the book's preface. This methodological commitment to non-closure extends to how Grollios approaches his central authors. Aside from a brief introduction, the book consists entirely in four case studies-of Nietzsche, Walter Benjamin, Cornelius Castoriadis...

... the Ninth Thesis in Walter Benjamin's "On the Concept of History," he describes the angel of history who "sees one single catastrophe, which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it at his feet2 The angel would love to fix the damage, but he is unable to resist the force of a "storm [that] drives...

... and James D. Ingram , 3 – 56 . New York : Columbia University Press . Abensour , Miguel . 2017 . Utopia from Thomas More to Walter Benjamin . Translated by R. MacKenzie . Minneapolis : Univocal . Abensour , Miguel . 2020 . “ Utopia and Democracy .” In The Weariness...

... that-in embracing a spurious standard of wholeness, in "tucking in loose elbows" -did violence not only to the political conflicts of nineteenth-century America but to those of his own era as well. Contrasting Matthiessen's acceptance of the Popular Front with its rejection by Walter Benjamin, Arac would argue...

...," that is, as the radical fluctuations of fashion. This is what Walter Benjamin said about him, when he described the price that modern man had to pay for his sensations, the collapse of personal experience, the shock of the new. -Baudelaire paid a high price for his complicity in this collapse. And if I remember correctly...

... excellent chapter on the Frankfurt School lacked any mention of Walter Benjamin, the most mystical and gravely optimistic of the otherwise dour collective. Benjamin provided the vital speculative humanism that gave critical theory its historical dynamism, without which its traditions really can tend towards...

... to the "postmodern" dialectical engagements seen in the work of his theoretical cohorts Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin, for example - Marcuse has roared back, and is becoming increasingly celebrated for his searing analyses of our always mutating, though ceaselessly exploitative and instrumentalizing, "one...

... described by Walter Benjamin's remark, often quoted in recent months. Commenting on Marx's view of revolution as being history's' 'locomotive," Benjamin suggested: "Maybe it is just 45 46 NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE the opposite. Perhaps revolutions can be better understood as the people's way of reaching...

..., in this sense, conceptualize liberal rationalism as merely one moment in humanism, and one might further ponder the alleged sacredness of human life along with the likes of Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben. Kruks argues that Beauvoir's embodied existentialism embraces, "the fact that each of us...

... , Peter . 2004 . “ Ethical Cynicism .” In Atterton and Calarco 2004 : 51 – 61 . Atterton , Peter , and Matthew Calarco , eds. 2004 . Animal Philosophy: Ethics and Identity . New York : Continuum . Benjamin , Walter . 1968 . “ Theses on the Philosophy...

... to the paralysis of what Walter Benjamin calls "Left melancholia:'3 As the acceleration of neoliberalism heightened concerns about the decline of collective action and political antagonism, Wendy Brown, Jacques Ranciere, Chantal Mouffe, and others identified a general condition of"post-democracy" or"post-politics...

... of art in human history which was purely progressive or revolutionary, without entertaining some kind of ideological complicity with domination. Let the motto for this assertion be Walter Benjamin's great observa.tion, "There is no document of culture which is not a t the same time a document...

... the possibility of environmental democracy in our profound time of crisis through an assessment of the possibilities and constraints—and anchoring of utopian thought—conceived through critical engagement with Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, and Judith Butler. Lipscomb argues, “This kind of autonomy, which rests...

... social life to which a Marcuse can speak.' For a theorist who was almost a persona non grata in the 1980s and 1990s in academic circles - seemingly cutting a rather outdated figure next to the "postmodern" dialectical engagements seen in the work of his theoretical cohorts Theodor Adorno and Walter...

... Violence: Walter Benjamin and the Eschatology of Sovereignty (New York: Routledge, 2012); Robert Cover, "Violence and the Word," Yale Law Journal 95, no. 8 (1986): 1601-1630; Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013). 4Murad Idris has...