James McFarland, Constellation: Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin in the Now-Time of History (New York: Fordham University Press, 2013).

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-215
Author(s):  
Assimina Kaniari
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Walter Benjamin

The Taste to Come

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 238-262
Author(s):  
Virgil W. Brower
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
The Body ◽  
Helene Cixous ◽  
Specific Kind ◽  
To Come

This article exploits a core defect in the phenomenology of sensation and self. Although phenomenology has made great strides in redeeming the body from cognitive solipsisms that often follow short-sighted readings of Descartes and Kant, it has not grappled with the specific kind of corporeal self-reflexivity that emerges in the oral sense of taste with the thoroughness it deserves. This path is illuminated by the works of Martin Luther, Jean-Luc Marion, and Jacques Derrida as they attempt to think through the specific phenomena accessible through the lips, tongue, and mouth. Their attempts are, in turn, supplemented with detours through Walter Benjamin, Hélène Cixous, and Friedrich Nietzsche. The paper draws attention to the German distinction between Geschmack and Kosten as well as the role taste may play in relation to faith, the call to love, justice, and messianism. The messiah of love and justice will have been that one who proclaims: taste the flesh.

Bodies of Meaning: Studies on Language, Labor, and Liberation. By David McNally. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. 277p. $72.50 cloth, $23.95 paper.

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-191
Author(s):  
Nicholas Xenos
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
State University ◽  
The Real

David McNally styles this book as beginning in a polemic and ending in a “materialist approach to language” much indebted to the German critic Walter Benjamin. The charge is that “postmodernist theory, whether it calls itself poststructuralism, deconstruction or post-Marxism, is constituted by a radical attempt to banish the real human body—the sensate, biocultural, laboring body—from the sphere of language and social life” (p. 1). By treating language as an abstraction, McNally argues, postmodernism constitutes a form of idealism. More than that, it succumbs to and perpetuates the fetishism of commodities disclosed by Marx insofar as it treats the products of human laboring bodies as entities independently of them. Clearly irritated by the claims to radicalism made by those he labels postmodern, McNally thinks he has found their Achilles' heel: “The extra-discursive body, the body that exceeds language and discourse, is the ‘other’ of the new idealism, the entity it seeks to efface in order to bestow absolute sovereignty on language. To acknowledge the centrality of the sensate body to language and society is thus to threaten the whole edifice of postmodernist theory” (p. 2).

scholarly journals Hlið við hlið. Tapað-fundið í framandi borgum

Ritið ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-49
Author(s):  
Ástráður Eysteinsson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
World View ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
Franz Kafka ◽  
Getting Lost ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The City ◽  
Internal Connections

This essay concerns itself with perceptions of the urban sphere, with its manifestations in literature and life writing, and with the city as a place of strangeness and travel in various senses, including the ways in which it pertains to the individual world view. Cities are places of density and internal connections, but their gates also open out and connect with other places, and increasingly other cities. Following a discussion of the Icelandic links between Copenhagen and Reykjavík, and the slow emergence of the latter as a „literary capital“, the course is set for foreign cities, including Berlin and Paris in the company of Walter Benjamin, and the experience of getting lost with Franz Kafka in places that may be Prague and New York. In attempting to answer the question whether it is possible to become intimate with cities, we have recourse to city guides, life maps, a touring theatre – and the art of losing and finding.

Klossowski, Pierre (1905–2001)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalja Chestopalova
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Ludwig Wittgenstein ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Franz Kafka ◽  
Georges Bataille ◽  
Rainer Maria Rilke ◽  
Andre Gide ◽  
Pierre Klossowski ◽  
André Gide

French philosopher, writer, artist and translator Pierre Klossowski was born in Paris and raised in Switzerland, Germany and France. His education was influenced by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) and André Gide (1869–1951). A friend of Georges Bataille (1897–1962), Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) and Pierre-Jean Jouve (1887–1976), Klossowski produced French translations of works by Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), Franz Kafka (1883–1924), Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) and Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) from German, and of the works of Suetonius, Virgil, Augustine and Tertullian from Latin.

scholarly journals A flaneur in Turin: The perception of space in the works of Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 131-142
Author(s):  
Theresa Rauch
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Capitalist Society ◽  
Intellectual Stimulation ◽  
Inner Life ◽  
Architectural Space ◽  
State Of Mind ◽  
The City

This essay attempts to differentiate three different kinds of spatial-atmospheric experience on the basis of the theories by Hermann Schmitz and Robert Vischer. Furthermore, it connects these methods to the figure of the flaneur in Walter Benjamin's Passages as well as in the late Turin diaries of Friedrich Nietzsche. These two concepts of the flaneur can be seen as antithetic. For Walter Benjamin city strolling is a means of intellectual stimulation, focusing on impulses from the urban landscape that are then interwoven in associative, oscillating streams of thought, often commenting on the city stroller as an actor in a capitalist society. In contrast, Friedrich Nietzsches experience of architectural space can be seen as a full synthesis of inner life and outer experience, thought and motion intertwine, facilitating a new creative disposition and state of mind.

scholarly journals Deleuze, Benjamin

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (55) ◽  
pp. 118-145
Author(s):  
Christian Fernando Ribeiro Guimarães Vinci
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Franz Kafka ◽  
Antonin Artaud

Esse ensaio procurará aproximar o pensamento de Gilles Deleuze e Walter Benjamin, autores comumente articulados em distintas correntes filosóficas. Para tanto, procuraremos pensar o modo como Deleuze apresenta uma crença imanente nesse mundo, plataforma de pensamento para uma outra tradição crítica – iniciada com Espinosa e continuada por Friedrich Nietzsche, Franz Kafka, Antonin Artaud e outros. Acreditando ser possível inserir Benjamin nessa outra tradição crítica, buscaremos apresentar algumas discussões benjaminianas acerca da revolução messiânica, um modo de revolução preocupado em produzir uma ideia de felicidade terrena. Ambas as discussões, defendemos, partilhariam de uma mesma aposta, uma aposta nas potências criadoras inatas aos homens, passíveis apenas de serem recuperadas quando abdicamos de qualquer perspectiva transcendente e adotamos uma perspectiva de pensamento dita imanente.

scholarly journals La inservidumbre de la escritura en la época de la técnica: Heidegger, Nietzsche, Benjamin y Foucault

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (15) ◽  
pp. 5-24
Author(s):  
Ester Jordana Lluch
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Walter Benjamin

El presente artículo examina las relaciones entre escritura, técnica y pensamiento. Las reflexiones de Martin Heidegger en torno a porqué la ciencia no piensa nos permiten abordar el problema de la homogenización del pensamiento y de la escritura en las universidades contemporáneas. Afirmar hoy que «la academia no piensa» invita a una reflexión respecto a esos modos de pensamiento y escritura imperantes. Siguiendo los vínculos que Heidegger establece entre el avenimiento de la técnica y la transformación de la escritura analizamos su noción de serenidad para contraponerla al modo en que Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Benjamin y Michel Foucault se sirven de distintos objetos técnicos para generar nuevas formas de pensamiento y de escritura.

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