...Kristina Mendicino Walter Benjamin’s distinction of truth from knowledge in his “Epistemo-Critical Prologue” marks a fundamental break with the truth claims of the empirical sciences, as well as those of any system of philosophy—phenomenological, neo-Kantian, or otherwise—that would be based...

...Ronald Mendoza–de Jesús Abstract Although Walter Benjamin anticipated a confrontation with Martin Heidegger regarding the theory of historical knowledge, this confrontation was never fully elaborated. This essay contributes to filling out this lacuna by arguing that Benjamin’s concept...

...Thomas Schestag Abstract This essay gathers two contributions to conferences or panels delivered in 2015 and 2016. The liminal figure relating both incompletes is the Sammler , as discussed in two texts by Walter Benjamin: “Eduard Fuchs, der Sammler und der Historiker” (“Eduard Fuchs: Collector...

... for writing poetry. —Walter Benjamin' It is the singular achievement of Walter Benjamin's late texts on Baudelaire to have sketched for us one possible way that the subject might get through capital, one way that it (or "we") might move through the radical transformations...

... Franz Kafk a’s collec- tion Contemplation, “will not be able to manage for long without a window looking on to the street.”1 Two decades aft er Kafk a— same language, diff erent locale— Walter Benjamin refl ects in Berlin Child- hood around 1900 that nothing has fortifi ed his “own memory so pro...

... they are examples of "the destructive character" that acts within the second tradition, whose existence and principles I have tried to retrieve out of Benjamin's essays on art and on the destructive character. 1 A first version of this text was presented at a seminar led by Judith Butler on Walter...

... Copyright © 2018 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2018 Abensour Miguel . Utopia from Thomas More to Walter Benjamin , translated by MacKenzie Ramond N. . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2017 . Agamben Giorgio . The Mystery of Evil: Benedict XVI...

... Azoulay’s investigation of the encounter between the political and the photographic. Since Walter Benjamin’s polemic pronouncement in “The Work 194 qui parle fall/winter 2013 vol. 22, no. 1 of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” distinguishing art that is political from...

..., Sephardi Jewry: A History of the Judeo-Spanish Community, 14th-20th Centuries (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000). Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project, trans. Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999). Geoffrey Bennington...

..., Gregory. Gilles Deleuze and the Fabulation of Philosophy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. Friedlander, Eli. Walter Benjamin: A Philosophical Portrait. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012. Friedlander, Lee. Lee Friedlander: In the Picture (Self...

.... New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. Morgan, David. The Forge of Vision: A Visual History of Modern Christianity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015. Richter, Gerhard. Inheriting Walter Benjamin. New York: Bloomsbury, 2016. Ruda, Frank. Abolishing Freedom: A Plea...

... of whom may have been directly in- fl uenced by Nietzsche himself and others who simply form what Walter Benjamin would call a “constellation,” a network of au- thors and texts that are mutually infl uencing both forward and backward in time.23 Perhaps the clearest example...

..., and Integrated Liberal Studies. He is the author of Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography (Wayne State University Press, 2002) and the editor of Benjamin's Ghosts: Interventions in Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory (Stanford University Press, 2002...

... NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ARIELLA AZOULAY teaches visual culture and contemporary phi- losophy at Bar Ilan University. She is the author of Once Upon a Time: Photography after Walter Benjamin (Bar Ilan University Press, 2005) and Death's Showcase (MIT Press, 2001, Winner...

..., Idolatry and Political Theory (2011) and Divine Violence: Walter Benjamin and the Eschatology of Sovereignty (2011) as well as being the coeditor of an edited volume titled How Not to Be Governed: Readings and Interpretations from a Critical Anarchist Left (2011). andrew moisey is an award-winning...

... the product of and answer to a massive social instability and violent political fragmentation whereby the wounds of the First World War are not healed but rather kept open as a way of life. As Walter Benjamin perceptively charac- terized an earlier version of the ideas...

.... But it was necessary that the atlas singularly resolve a general problem, posed by Walter Benjamin in his treatment of the Trauerspiel: "It is the characteristic of philo- sophical writing that it must continually confront the question of exposition [Darstellung18 In each case...

... Press, 2013. Duncan, Robert. Collected Essays and Other Prose. Ed. James Maynard. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014. Eiland, Howard, and Michael W. Jennings. Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014. Ernst...

... Zone Books), Once Upon A Time: Photo- graphy Following Walter Benjamin (in Hebrew, Bar Ilan Qui Park, Vol. 16, No. 2 Spring/Summer 2007 148 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS University Press, 2006, in Hebrew), Death's Showcase (MIT Press, 2001 -Winner...

...” (Har- vard University Press, 2000), J. J. Rousseau: An Afterlife of Words (Har- vard University Press, 2005), and Walter Benjamin: A Philosophical Por- 280 qui parle fall/winter 2012 vol.21, no.1 trait (Harvard University Press, 2011). His more recent research has been...