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Politics of Benjamin's Kafka: Philosophy as Renegade (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
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Politics of Benjamin's Kafka: Philosophy as Renegade (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
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This book provides a critical assessment of Benjamin's writings on
Franz Kafka and of Benjamin's related writings. Eliciting from
Benjamin's writings a conception of philosophy that is political in
its dissociation from - its becoming renegade in relation to, its
philosophic shame about - established laws, norms, and forms, the
book compares Benjamin's writings with relevant works by Agamben,
Heidegger, Levinas, and others. In relating Benjamin's writings on
Kafka to Benjamin's writings on politics, the study delineates a
philosophic impetus in literature and argues that this impetus has
potential political consequences. Finally, the book is critical of
Benjamin's messianism insofar as it is oriented by the anticipated
elimination of exceptions and distractions. Exceptions and
distractions are, the book argues, precisely what literature, like
other arts, brings to the fore. Hence the philosophic, and the
political, importance of literature.
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