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2Das Unabgeschlossene (das Glück). Walter Benjamin’s “Idea of Happiness”Open Philosophy 7 (1): 59-72. 2024.The considerable literature discussing Walter Benjamin’s “idea of happiness” points both to the important role it plays in his thought and, in this context, to the diversity of interpretations his elliptic style has generated. The pivotal role played by the term in Benjamin’s oeuvre from his early writings on language to his Passagenwerk originates in what has been regarded as his “dialectics of happiness.” While this is certainly a plausible diagnosis, a closer look at the wording of the releva…Read more
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On Halt!In Davor Beganović, Zrinka Božić, Andrea Milanko & Ivana Perica (eds.), Procedures of Resistance: Contents, Positions and the ‘Doings’ of Literary Theory, Springer Nature Switzerland. pp. 319-332. 2024.Any exploration of the relationship between literature and resistance is situated in the all-pervasive—and by now dated—debates between littérature engagée and littérature autonome. Over the past hundred years, the place of Franz Kafka in these debates has been discussed in controversial ways by some of the most important philosophers in a variety of contexts. In her chapter, Vivian Liska experiments with several possible readings of Kafka’s short narrative “Up in the Gallery.” Each one of them …Read more
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Messianic language and the idea of prose: Benjamin and AgambenIn Anna Glazova & Paul North (eds.), Messianic thought outside theology, Fordham University Press. 2014.
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Derrida and Kafka: a Talmudic disputation before the lawIn Jean-Michel Rabaté (ed.), Understanding Derrida, understanding modernism, Bloomsbury Academic. 2019.
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15“Before the Law stands a doorkeeper. To this doorkeeper comes a man…”: Kafka, Narrative, and the LawNaharaim 6 (2): 175-194. 2012.
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8The Poem, the Place, the Jew: Emmanuel Levinas on Paul CelanIn Michael Fagenblat & Arthur Cools (eds.), Levinas and Literature: New Directions, De Gruyter. pp. 175-192. 2020.
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227Parricidal Autobiographies: Sarah Kofman between Theory and MemoryEuropean Journal of Women's Studies 7 (1): 91-101. 2000.When the French philosopher Sarah Kofman committed suicide in 1994 she left behind an impressive oeuvre in which both the autobiographical genre and the treatment of women play a central role. Her theoretical re ections on both topics situate themselves in the interstices between psychoanalysis, feminism and deconstruction and share a common concern: the respect of alterity in all its guises. Kofman's resistance to the authoritative claim of the retrospective closure underlying traditional autob…Read more
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158Die Verführung der Sirenen. Adorno, Blanchot und die LiteraturIn Gunzelin Schmid Noerr & Eva-Maria Ziege (eds.), Zur Kritik der Regressiven Vernunft: Beiträge Zur "Dialektik der Aufklärung", Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. pp. 209-223. 2018.Ein Vergleich zwischen zwei prominenten Deutungen der Begegnung von Odysseus mit den Sirenen in Homers Odyssee, dem erstem Exkurs in der Dialektik der Aufklärung und dem einleitenden Kapitel von Maurice Blanchots Livre à venir – einer offensichtlich mit Adornos Deutung korrespondierenden Lektüre der Sirenenepisode – ermöglicht einen Einblick in das Verhältnis zwischen der Hauptfigur der Kritischen Theorie und einem der wichtigsten Vorläufer der Dekonstruktion. Diese beiden idiosynkratischen Lesa…Read more
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14German-Jewish Thought and its Afterlife: A Tenuous LegacyIndiana University Press. 2016.Drawing on Jewish dimensions in the works of Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt, and Paul Celan, Vivian Liska reflects on the dialogues between these contemporaries and traces the changing role that Jewish tradition has played in the development of modern thought. She notes how these intellectuals and philosophers transmitted their particular visions of modernity but also viewed them in the light of the Jewish tradition’s legacies and challenges. Liska argues that these…Read more
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15Giorgio Agambens leerer Messianismus: Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Franz KafkaSchlebrügge.Editor. 2008.Die Lücke in der Zeit: Agamben und Arendt -- Wie Sonntagskinder: Agamben und Benjamin -- Als ob nicht: Agamben und Kafka.
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2A lawless legacy : Hannah Arendt and Giorgio AgambenIn Marco Goldoni & Christopher McCorkindale (eds.), Hannah Arendt and the law, Hart Pub.2. 2012.
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24From dialectics to the diabolical: Adorno’s “new music” and blanchot’s “ars nova”Angelaki 23 (3): 14-27. 2018.In “Ars Nova,” a short essay written in 1963, Blanchot defends the “new music” of Arnold Schönberg and his school against its critics and hails it as an exemplary contestation of culture conceived as an attempt to conceal the groundlessness of human existence. The fragmentary and dissonant nature of the “new music” has the power to unmask culture’s pretence of order, meaning and harmony. It embodies the potential of modernist art to unsettle all established conventions standing in the way of an …Read more
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29A travel guide to palestine. Walter Benjamin in IsraelNaharaim - Zeitschrift Für Deutsch-Jüdische Literatur Und Kulturgeschichte 2 (2). 2008.