Walter Benjamin: Self-Reference and Religiosity

By Margarete Kohlenbach

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349432091
• ISBN13: 9781349432097
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"