Anthropology & Materialism, special issue on Walter Benjamin and philosophy

https://am.revues.org/524 [1]

From the special issue's editors:

We are very happy to announce the publication of Discontinuous Infinities, a
special issue of the online journal Anthropology & Materialism, dedicated to
the philosophy of Walter Benjamin. The issue, co-edited by Jan Sieber and
Sebastian Truskolaski, features articles by international scholars,
including: Yanik Avila, Léa Barbisan, Andrew Benjamin, Élise Derroitte,
Phillip Homburg, Sami Khatib, Nassima Sahraoui, Jonathan Short, and Irving
Wohlfarth. On the one hand, the pieces collected in this volume explore
Benjamin's relation to a range of canonical figures, whose work
significantly influenced his own thinking (Kant, Fichte, Marx, Cohen,
Husserl, Freud etc.); on the other hand, they put his philosophy into
relation with a range of more recent thinkers (Saussure, Blanchot, Lacan,
Derrida, Esposito, Hardt and Negri etc.) All the while, the volume seeks
to cast into relief an image of Benjamin's own philosophical programme, its
limits and its possibilities, to probe the actuality of his thinking, and to
assert his philosophy's enduring significance at a time of renewed political
crisis. On this basis, we hope that the pieces in the present collection
will prove to be illuminating, and that our efforts may contribute –
however modestly – to the understanding of Benjamin's philosophical
project.
 

 

[1] https://am.revues.org/524