Walter Benjamin: Self-Reference and Religiosity

by Margarete Kohlenback and M. 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333993594
• ISBN13: 9780333993590
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 8.3"