Walter Benjamin Selfreference And Religiosity 1st Edition Margarete Kohlenbach Auth by Margarete Kohlenbach (auth.) 9780230511279, 9781349432097, 0230511279, 1349432091 instant download after payment.

Walter Benjamin's work represents one of the most radical and controversial responses to the problems of twentieth-century culture and society. This new interpretation analyzes some of the central enigmatic features of his writing, arguing that they result from the co-presence of religious scepticism and the desire for a religious foundation of social life. Margarete Kohlenbach focuses on the structure of self-reference as an expression of Benjamin's sceptical religiosity and examines its significance in his writing on language, literature and the cinema, as well as history, politics and modern technology.