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Religion Around Walter Benjamin (Paperback)
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Religion Around Walter Benjamin (Paperback)
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This book shows how institutional religion and the religiosity of
political and cultural life provide a necessary dimension to Walter
Benjamin, one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers. Lived
religion surrounded Benjamin, whose upper-middle-class Jewish
family celebrated Christmas and Hanukkah in Berlin as the turmoil
of war, collapsing empires, and modern urban life gave rise to the
Nazi regime that would destroy most of Europe’s Jews, including
Benjamin himself. Documenting the vitality and diversity of
religious life that surrounded Benjamin in Germany, France, and
beyond, Brian Britt shows the extent to which religious communities
and traditions, especially those of Christians, influenced his
work. Britt surveys and analyzes the intellectual, cultural, and
social contexts of religion in Benjamin’s world and broadens the
religious frame around discussions of his work to include lived
religion—the daily practices of ordinary people. Seeing religion
around Benjamin requires looking at forms of life and institutions
that he rarely discussed. As Britt shows, dramatic changes in
religious practices, particularly in Berlin, reflected broader
political and cultural currents that would soon transform the lives
of all Europeans. An original perspective on the religious context
of a thinker who habitually raised questions about the survival of
religion in modernity, Religion Around Walter Benjamin contributes
to wider discussions of religious tradition and secular modernity
in religious and cultural studies. It provides a foundational
overview and introduction to the context of Benjamin’s writing
that will be appreciated by scholars and students alike.
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