"On the Right Side of the Barricades": Walter Benjamin, Gershom Scholem, and Zionism

2013 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 363-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Raz-Krakotzkin
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
The Right

The Culture of Criticism

PMLA ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 99 (3) ◽  
pp. 371-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey H. Hartman
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Social World ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
A Value ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
The Right

For those who approach literary studies with literary sensitivity, an immediate problem arises. They cannot overlook style, their own or that of others. Through their concern with literature they have become aware that understanding is a mediated activity and that style is an index of how the writer deals with the consciousness of mediation. Style is not cognitive only; it is also recognitive, a signal betraying the writer's relation, or sometimes the relation of a type of discourse, to a historical and social world. To say that of course words are a form of life is not enough: words at this level of style intend a statement about life itself in relation to words, and in particular to literature as a value-laden act. Thus, even without fully understanding it, one is alerted by a similarity in the opening of these two essays: The Right Reverend Father in God, Lancelot Bishop of Winchester, died on September 26th, 1626. During his lifetime he enjoyed a distinguished reputation for the excellence of his sermons, for the conduct of his diocese, for his ability in controversy displayed against Cardinal Bellarmine, and for the decorum and devotion of his private life. (Eliot, Lancelot 13) One afternoon, Walter Benjamin was sitting inside the Café des Deux Magots in Saint Germain des Prés when he was struck with compelling force by the idea of drawing a diagram of his life, and knew at the same moment exactly how it was to be done. He drew the diagram, and with utterly typical ill-luck lost it again a year or two later. The diagram, not surprisingly, was a labyrinth. (Eagleton, Pref.)

Who is Able to Stand before the LORD, this Holy God?

2021 ◽  
pp. 151-153
Author(s):  
Rachelle Gilmour
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Divine Violence ◽  
The Right

Two accounts of the ark’s violence in 1 Sam 6:19 and 2 Sam 6:7 have prompted a multitude of interpretations in scholarship. Most explanations for the violence of the ark assume the violence is related to the right (or wrong) treatment of the ark. Even if these interpretations acknowledge that the violence is out of proportion to the transgression, they propose, nevertheless, that a known law has been broken; or the violence establishes a custom for the ark’s treatment or endorses the ark’s holiness. This chapter introduces the thought of Walter Benjamin whose work gives categories to understand divine violence as neither preserving or creating law.

Three faces of ageism: society, image and place

2003 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
KEVIN E. MCHUGH
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Older People ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
The United States ◽  
Successful Ageing ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Arcades Project ◽  
Decline Disease ◽  
The Right ◽  
Home Living

This paper elucidates and champions a spatiality perspective in social gerontology, by arguing that relationships between older people and the spaces and places they inhabit illuminate deeply-ingrained societal attitudes and values. The trilogy of society, image and place is explored through an interpretive reading of images and scripts in ‘successful ageing’ and ‘anti-ageing’ created and promoted by the booming ‘retirement industry’ in the United States. Six tropes are revealed in an interpretation of prevalent images of ‘Sunbelt Retirement Land’: geographic cornucopia, ageless selves, near perfection, the right stuff, down home living, and nomads of desire. This reading serves as a springboard in elaborating Cole's (1992) notion of bipolar ageism, as we vacillate between negative stereotypes of old age and positive elixirs, such as anti-ageing and agelessness, that are cloaked denials of decline, disease and death. The paper concludes with a series of troubling questions about the perpetuation and depth of ageism in society and culture.Every present day is determined by the images that are synchronic with it: each ‘now’ is the now of a particular recognizability. (Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project, 1999: 462–63)

scholarly journals The Jewish wall: The Eisenman empire

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-38
Author(s):  
Renato Rizzi
Keyword(s):  
Original Problem ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Expressive Language ◽  
The Gift ◽  
The Right

In this article author is arguing that architecture, like all other aesthetic disciplines, has for long been pointing to the original problem: the sense of form. The form is seen as the multiplicity of expressive language that comes from particular kind of knowledge. Regarding this architecture is seen as work of realization; the cognition of knowledge and that the form is representation, the sense is the essence. Author is also arguing that the greater variable, although not the only one, among the four factors concerns the right to knowledge. The greater or smaller its extension and profoundness, the greater or smaller our ability to slide along the essential line of the slope. Or, towards the "contents of the truth of one work", if we wish to use the same words of Walter Benjamin. But the hypothesis, although it has to be demonstrated yet, imposes the logic of thoughts, which should be added to the aesthetics of thoughts: the gift of compilation, the image of the unity of the entirety. In several parts of this paper, through the questions of the theological, the scene of thought, interpretation on representation and contemplation, ideas, concepts and phenomenon, author will discuss on possible interpretations of work of Pieter Eisenman.

scholarly journals The Right to Strike and Legal War in Walter Benjamin's “Toward the Critique of Violence”

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 252-260
Author(s):  
Marc Crépon ◽  
Micol Bez
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Law Of War ◽  
State Monopoly ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Right ◽  
Critique Of Violence ◽  
The Way

Abstract The object of this article is to show how, at the beginning of his essay “Toward the Critique of Violence,” Walter Benjamin uses the questions of the right to strike and law of war to exemplify the way in which the state monopoly has no other goal than to preserve the law itself. In so doing, the question of the boundary between violence and nonviolence is put into conversation with the distinction made by Georges Sorel between the political strike and the general revolutionary strike.

scholarly journals The Red and the Black: Images of American Indians in the Italian Political Landscape

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (s1) ◽  
pp. 327-345
Author(s):  
Giorgio Mariani
Keyword(s):  
American Indian ◽  
American Indians ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Political Campaigns ◽  
Student Movement ◽  
Cultural Imperialism ◽  
Indian Culture ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
The Right

Abstract In Italy, over the last decades, both the Left and the Right have repeatedly employed American Indians as political icons. The Left and the Right, that is, both adopted and adapted certain real or often outright invented features of American Indian culture and history to promote their own ideas, values, and political campaigns. The essay explores how well-established stereotypes such as those of the ecological Indian, the Indian as victim, and the Indian as fearless warrior, have often surfaced in Italian political discourse. The “Indiani Metropolitani” student movement resorted to “Indian” imagery and concepts to rejuvenate the languages of the old socialist and communist left, whereas the Right has for the most part preferred to brandish the Indian as an image of a bygone past, threatened by modernization and, especially, by immigration. Indians are thus compared to contemporary Europeans, struggling to resist being invaded by “foreign” peoples. While both the Left and the Right reinvent American Indians for their own purposes, and could be said to practice a form of cultural imperialism, the essay argues that the Leftist appropriations of the image of the Indian were always marked by irony. Moreover, while the Right’s Indians can be seen as instances of what Walter Benjamin (1969) described as Fascism’s aestheticization of politics, groups like the Indiani Metropolitani tried to politicize the aesthetics.

Abounaddara and the global visual politics of the ‘right to the image’

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 378-411
Author(s):  
Joscelyn Shawn Ganjhara Jurich
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Media Ethics ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
Visual Politics ◽  
National Media ◽  
Short Video ◽  
The Right ◽  
Syrian Conflict

The anonymous Syrian film collective Abounaddara has posted a new short video on Vimeo and distributed it via social media every Friday since April 2011, the beginning of the Syrian popular uprising. Working with limited equipment, no regular funding, and under very dangerous conditions, Abounaddara has termed its work ‘emergency cinema’, recalling one of the group’s vital influences, Walter Benjamin, who envisioned artistic collectives as potentially effective responses to political violence. This article demonstrates how Abounaddara’s work subverts international and national media coverage of the Syrian conflict by consciously employing what Benjamin described as an artisanal form of storytelling. The author illustrates how and why Abounaddara’s concept of ‘the right to the image’ is politically vital and ethically complex, arguing for its relevance within the broader context of global digital images of state and police violence rousing debates about representation, media ethics, and the circulation of graphic images.

Criminalization: Carl Schmitt and Walter Benjamin’s concept of criminal politics

2009 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Udi E. Greenberg
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Carl Schmitt ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
Modern Politics ◽  
Crucial Component ◽  
The Right ◽  
Shed Light

The two most celebrated intellectuals of the Weimar period — Carl Schmitt on the right and Walter Benjamin on the left — were fascinated by the role of crime in modern politics. In order to shed light on this neglected element of their work, this article explains how crime became a central category in their political theory and a crucial component in their narratives of modern history. Furthermore, it elucidates how both men simultaneously came to characterize their society as a whole, and not only fractions of it, as criminal in essence. Though many have seen the connection between Schmitt and Benjamin as a continuous dialogue, this study contends that the similarity between their theories of criminal politics should be interpreted not as a direct discussion, but within the context of wide debates regarding the origins of crime as well as the blending of criminal and political discourses that occurred during the Weimar period.

Investor-State Dispute Settlement under NAFTA Chapter 11: The Shape of Things to Come?

1998 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 263-290
Author(s):  
J. Anthony VanDuzer
Keyword(s):  
Free Trade Agreement ◽  
Dispute Settlement ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
Minimum Standards ◽  
The North ◽  
State Behaviour ◽  
Nafta Chapter 11 ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Right

SummaryRecently, there has been a proliferation of international agreements imposing minimum standards on states in respect of their treatment of foreign investors and allowing investors to initiate dispute settlement proceedings where a state violates these standards. Of greatest significance to Canada is Chapter 11 of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which provides both standards for state behaviour and the right to initiate binding arbitration. Since 1996, four cases have been brought under Chapter 11. This note describes the Chapter 11 process and suggests some of the issues that may arise as it is increasingly resorted to by investors.

What face familiarity feelings say about the lateralization of specific entities within the core system

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guido Gainotti
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Lobe ◽  
Memory System ◽  
Core System ◽  
The Core ◽  
Memory Traces ◽  
Specific Memory ◽  
Target Article ◽  
Temporal Structures ◽  
The Right

Abstract The target article carefully describes the memory system, centered on the temporal lobe that builds specific memory traces. It does not, however, mention the laterality effects that exist within this system. This commentary briefly surveys evidence showing that clear asymmetries exist within the temporal lobe structures subserving the core system and that the right temporal structures mainly underpin face familiarity feelings.

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