Papers by Nassima Sahraoui
The following article deconstructs certain figures of Benjamin’s thoughts on history and on epist... more The following article deconstructs certain figures of Benjamin’s thoughts on history and on epistemology – such as image, trace, crystal, standstill, the ‘Now’, and the ‘subject of historical knowledge’ – and relates them to the political dimension of his “Critique of Violence”, and to his remarks on the linguistic structure of political writing. Thereby it centres on the following questions: in what way could Benjamin’s characterisation of the singular moment, as well as his analysis of temporality provide insights into historical dynamics? Furthermore, it aims at investigating if and to what extent historico-political action is related to a certain understanding of time and power: can such action be seen as a crystallised emanation of the ‘Now’, of Jetztzeit?
"Cristales de tiempo. Reflexiones (políticas) sobre una historia del ahora", in Esperanza, pero n... more "Cristales de tiempo. Reflexiones (políticas) sobre una historia del ahora", in Esperanza, pero no para nosotros. Capitalismo, técnica y estética en Walter Benjamin, edited by Horst Nitschack and Miguel Vatter, Santiago 2021.
Als Wissenschaftlerin ist "Neugier" sicher für Sie eine Eigenschaft, die Sie auszeichnet?
Neugie... more Als Wissenschaftlerin ist "Neugier" sicher für Sie eine Eigenschaft, die Sie auszeichnet?
Neugier ist sicherlich eine vorteilhafte Eigenschaft für jeden Wissenschaftler. Ein gewisses Maß an Neugierde ist vielleicht sogar notwendig, um die Suche nach einem Zugewinn an Wissen anzustoßen...
Ein InDepth-longread auf "Philosophie InDebate" zum Thema Müßiggang und der Frage, ob die philoso... more Ein InDepth-longread auf "Philosophie InDebate" zum Thema Müßiggang und der Frage, ob die philosophischen Figuren des Müßiggangs aus dem 19. Jahrhundert für heutige Diskurse und Krisen angebracht sind.
Der Artikel diskutiert einige Aspekte aus Schlegels "Lucinde", Benjamins Flaneur und Schildkröten.
https://philosophie-indebate.de/3690/indepth-longread/
"Generations of Water Mourning in the Sea of Life. Loose thoughts on the Power of Rain, Acqua Alt... more "Generations of Water Mourning in the Sea of Life. Loose thoughts on the Power of Rain, Acqua Alta, and the Question of Survival", published in the Zine "Living under Water", ed. by Andi Arnovitz and Shaul Bassi (2020)
This article examines the elliptical turns that Walter Benjamin takes around Martin Heidegger's p... more This article examines the elliptical turns that Walter Benjamin takes around Martin Heidegger's philosophy of history.
Love and loss, two of the most fundamental and vehement human emotional experiences, can both onl... more Love and loss, two of the most fundamental and vehement human emotional experiences, can both only operate on the verge of expression:
human language, this extraordinarily powerful tool of shaping and building our world, seems to fail whenever one attempts to capture the reality of love or loss in words...
In: Anthropology and Materialism. A Journal of Social Research, Special Issue: "Discontinuous In... more In: Anthropology and Materialism. A Journal of Social Research, Special Issue: "Discontinuous Infinities. Walter Benjamin and Philosophy", ed. Jan Sieber and Sebastian Truskolaski, March 2017
This two-day workshop will be devoted to a discussion of the appearance of violence and disruptio... more This two-day workshop will be devoted to a discussion of the appearance of violence and disruption as themes with which philosophy and literature deal, as well as to a contemplation of the difficult relationship between violence and writing in both perspectives: that of disruptive philosophical thinking as well as disruptive literary writing. International scholars from both fields will discuss the ways in which both realms disrupt and shed light on each other, hence tracing the space of disruption.
The panel "Hannah Arendt / Jacques Derrida: Politics, Language, Writing" address the intersection... more The panel "Hannah Arendt / Jacques Derrida: Politics, Language, Writing" address the intersections among the theoretical insights of two of the most influential intellectuals of the 20 th Century...
"Throughout his entire text corpus, Benjamin develops an original concept of experience: from the... more "Throughout his entire text corpus, Benjamin develops an original concept of experience: from the early essay On the Program of the Coming Philosophy (1917-18) to his last writings – especially his essay on Baudelaire (1939) and the Theses on the Concept of History – he attempts to outline a philosophy of experience in the age of its unrelenting decline...."
Oxford Literary Review, 2014
During the two days of our workshop, we will hence closely read and discuss the central aspects o... more During the two days of our workshop, we will hence closely read and discuss the central aspects of Benjamin’s idiosyncratic concept of experience.
The relationship between politics and poetics has been a complex and fascinating question for phi... more The relationship between politics and poetics has been a complex and fascinating question for philosophy since at least Plato’s Republic. While Plato reportedly burned his plays and banished poetry from the polis, Aristotle thought certain poetry fostered a “good” political community into being. After thinkers in Germany from Schlegel to Heidegger attempted to “return” to poetry, philosophers from Arendt to Kristeva to Nancy reconnected this poetic turn to the political. Taking this contemporary development as a point of departure, we would like to approach the relation between politics and poetics anew.
In: Oliver Flügel-Martinsen, Franziska Martinsen (eds.), Demokratietheorie und Staatskritik aus F... more In: Oliver Flügel-Martinsen, Franziska Martinsen (eds.), Demokratietheorie und Staatskritik aus Frankreich. Neuere Diskurse und Perspektiven, Stuttgart: Steiner 2015.
"This editorial necessarily begins with a paradox—a paradox which stems from our own claim to que... more "This editorial necessarily begins with a paradox—a paradox which stems from our own claim to question the present of deconstruction, at a conference that took place at the University of Frankfurt in March 2012. Whilst the question arose out of an awareness of a certain urgency to ‘actualise’ and ‘advance’ deconstruction with and against economic, institutional and academic interventions, at its centre this practice already bears an undeniable inconsistency in itself..."
(Nassima Sahraoui, Felix Trautmann, Thomas Telios)
Talks by Nassima Sahraoui
UNIVERSITY OF VERONA 3-4 JUNE 2022
"You are imperilled by the longing for community, even if it... more UNIVERSITY OF VERONA 3-4 JUNE 2022
"You are imperilled by the longing for community, even if it means the apocalyptic community of revolution" (Gershom Scholem, Letter to Benjamin, May 1931)
The concept of 'community' (Gemeinschaft) runs like a thread through many of Benjamin's writings: from his earliest reflections on the German Student Movement, including his 1911 essay on 'The Free School Community', to his ill-fated Habilitation on the Origin of the Mourning Play (1925); and from his early language-philosophical tract 'On Language as Such and on the Language of Man' (1916) to his later, more pointedly materialist city portrait, 'Moscow' (1927). For Benjamin, the term entails not only a critique of 'national community' (Volksgemeinschaft), but equally an effort to delineate a form of 'ethical community' (sittliche Gemeinschaft) and a 'community of language' (Sprachgemeinschaft). In each case, these figures of community are articulated in response to shifting historical circumstances, including two World Wars, and through an engagement with a wide range of interlocutors-Friedrich Hölderlin and Gustav Landauer, among them. Although Benjamin never systematically expounds the concept of community per se, his frequent use of the word is consistent with his wider effort to recast the sense in which alternative forms of sociality might be conceivedbe it in terms of 'The Storyteller's 'community of listeners' or in terms of the city as 'the first communio', as noted in The Arcades Project. In other words, there is a sense in which Benjamin's concept of community, alongside its cognate terms, marks a nodal point: an opportunity to rethink the interplay of language, history, and politics in the register of what is common.
This paper aims at tracing the relation between Heidegger and Celan through the philosophical myt... more This paper aims at tracing the relation between Heidegger and Celan through the philosophical myth of the unveiling of truth. Furthermore, it illustrated that where Heidegger still cleaves to the notion of 'earth', and devotes himself to a certain 'earth-writing' - a geography of being -, Celan already points us towards a new topology of rethinking the philosopical and philological tradition...
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Papers by Nassima Sahraoui
Neugier ist sicherlich eine vorteilhafte Eigenschaft für jeden Wissenschaftler. Ein gewisses Maß an Neugierde ist vielleicht sogar notwendig, um die Suche nach einem Zugewinn an Wissen anzustoßen...
Der Artikel diskutiert einige Aspekte aus Schlegels "Lucinde", Benjamins Flaneur und Schildkröten.
https://philosophie-indebate.de/3690/indepth-longread/
human language, this extraordinarily powerful tool of shaping and building our world, seems to fail whenever one attempts to capture the reality of love or loss in words...
(Nassima Sahraoui, Felix Trautmann, Thomas Telios)
Talks by Nassima Sahraoui
"You are imperilled by the longing for community, even if it means the apocalyptic community of revolution" (Gershom Scholem, Letter to Benjamin, May 1931)
The concept of 'community' (Gemeinschaft) runs like a thread through many of Benjamin's writings: from his earliest reflections on the German Student Movement, including his 1911 essay on 'The Free School Community', to his ill-fated Habilitation on the Origin of the Mourning Play (1925); and from his early language-philosophical tract 'On Language as Such and on the Language of Man' (1916) to his later, more pointedly materialist city portrait, 'Moscow' (1927). For Benjamin, the term entails not only a critique of 'national community' (Volksgemeinschaft), but equally an effort to delineate a form of 'ethical community' (sittliche Gemeinschaft) and a 'community of language' (Sprachgemeinschaft). In each case, these figures of community are articulated in response to shifting historical circumstances, including two World Wars, and through an engagement with a wide range of interlocutors-Friedrich Hölderlin and Gustav Landauer, among them. Although Benjamin never systematically expounds the concept of community per se, his frequent use of the word is consistent with his wider effort to recast the sense in which alternative forms of sociality might be conceivedbe it in terms of 'The Storyteller's 'community of listeners' or in terms of the city as 'the first communio', as noted in The Arcades Project. In other words, there is a sense in which Benjamin's concept of community, alongside its cognate terms, marks a nodal point: an opportunity to rethink the interplay of language, history, and politics in the register of what is common.
Neugier ist sicherlich eine vorteilhafte Eigenschaft für jeden Wissenschaftler. Ein gewisses Maß an Neugierde ist vielleicht sogar notwendig, um die Suche nach einem Zugewinn an Wissen anzustoßen...
Der Artikel diskutiert einige Aspekte aus Schlegels "Lucinde", Benjamins Flaneur und Schildkröten.
https://philosophie-indebate.de/3690/indepth-longread/
human language, this extraordinarily powerful tool of shaping and building our world, seems to fail whenever one attempts to capture the reality of love or loss in words...
(Nassima Sahraoui, Felix Trautmann, Thomas Telios)
"You are imperilled by the longing for community, even if it means the apocalyptic community of revolution" (Gershom Scholem, Letter to Benjamin, May 1931)
The concept of 'community' (Gemeinschaft) runs like a thread through many of Benjamin's writings: from his earliest reflections on the German Student Movement, including his 1911 essay on 'The Free School Community', to his ill-fated Habilitation on the Origin of the Mourning Play (1925); and from his early language-philosophical tract 'On Language as Such and on the Language of Man' (1916) to his later, more pointedly materialist city portrait, 'Moscow' (1927). For Benjamin, the term entails not only a critique of 'national community' (Volksgemeinschaft), but equally an effort to delineate a form of 'ethical community' (sittliche Gemeinschaft) and a 'community of language' (Sprachgemeinschaft). In each case, these figures of community are articulated in response to shifting historical circumstances, including two World Wars, and through an engagement with a wide range of interlocutors-Friedrich Hölderlin and Gustav Landauer, among them. Although Benjamin never systematically expounds the concept of community per se, his frequent use of the word is consistent with his wider effort to recast the sense in which alternative forms of sociality might be conceivedbe it in terms of 'The Storyteller's 'community of listeners' or in terms of the city as 'the first communio', as noted in The Arcades Project. In other words, there is a sense in which Benjamin's concept of community, alongside its cognate terms, marks a nodal point: an opportunity to rethink the interplay of language, history, and politics in the register of what is common.
This two-day workshop aims at re-reading Benjamin’s writings by following these various material traces.
If you would like to participate, please send a message and a brief biographical note to the organisers by 10 March, 2023.
Organisation: Stefano Marchesoni (Paris), Nassima Sahraoui (Frankfurt), Sebastian Truskolaski (Manchester)
Contact: marchesoni.stefano[at]gmail.com, nassima.sahraoui[at]gmx.org, sebastian.truskolaski[at]manchester.ac.uk
In collaboration with the Walter Benjamin Archiv, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, the Frankfurt Benjamin Lectures (Thomas Regehly), and the Ernst Bloch Centre for German Thought, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
For this workshop we will be joined by HOWARD CAYGILL (Kingston University London).
Since the event revolves around intensive reading sessions, some prior knowledge of Benjamin's philosophical writings is strongly encouraged. Bilingual, German-English copies of the texts will be made available. To facilitate the discussion, the number of participants for this workshop is limited. If you are interested in participating, please send a message and a brief biographical note to the organisers before 1 May, 2022.
This workshop is the seventh event in a series of gatherings that fall under the epigraph of “Violence in Philosophy and Literature”. It has taken place previously on “Language and Violence” (Tel Aviv University), “Space and Violence” (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw), “Thinking and Writing – Disruption” (ZfL Berlin), “Violence Incorporated” (University of Chicago), “Sound and Violence” (Collège International Paris), and on “Time and Violence” (Goethe University, Frankfurt).
(Walter Benjamin, Letter to Schoen, September 1919)
This two-day virtual workshop focusses on the fragments and studies written in the orbit of Benjamin’s seminal essay “Towards the Critique of Violence,” stemming mainly from the period between 1918 and 1921. The workshop will be organised around collective readings and discussions of selected text passages, each introduced by a brief presentation. The constellation of problems and concepts presented in these texts will serve as a starting point for a broader exploration of Benjamin’s political thought: we will ask what it means to read these texts today – and how we might understand their actuality. To facilitate the discussion, the number of participants for this workshop is limited. If you are interested to participate, please send a message and a brief biographical note to the organisers before 31 March, 2021.
Benjamin’s political thought: we will ask what it means to read these texts today – and how we might understand their actuality.
To facilitate the discussion, the number of participants for this workshop is limited. If you are interested to participate, please send a message and a brief biographical note to the organisers before 31 March, 2021.
(Prélude to “Politics|Politik in Walter Benjamin’s Philosophy”)
Online workshop, 8-9 May 2020
"I grasped thoughts which are so clear that I hope to set them down soon. They concern politics."
Walter Benjamin, Letter to E. Schoen, September 1919
For this workshop we will be joined by AGATA BIELIK-ROBSON (Nottingham) and IRVING WOHLFARTH (Paris/Bremen).
The imagination and construction of the social, the relationship between immigration and class, the performativity of power, and faith in progress, will be among the topics discussed, but also the political as a concept, as an act of speech or as epistemological and social justice.
Within the framework of the exhibition Museum, in which art offers scope for the Other and its visualization, for freedom, transgression and resistance, the symposium is intended as an invitation to contemplate the societies in which we live–and want to live.
SATURDAY, 25 JANUARY
11am–1pm
Kristina Hasenpflug: Welcome
Susanne Pfeffer: Introduction
Aria Dean: Bad Infinity
Lea Ypi: Immigration and Social Class
2:30–4:30pm
Geoffroy de Lagasnerie: Is Democracy a Relevant Concept for Thinking about Politics?
Rainer Forst: The Performativity of Power
5–6pm
Gurminder K Bhambra: Performing Society, Reforming Society: From Progress to Reparations
SUNDAY, 26 JANUARY
11am–1pm
Natasha Lennard: Liberatory Language Games and Anti-Fascist Speech Acts: Why We Need a Better Understanding of Truth and Meaning-Making in the Fight for Social Justice
Nina Power: We Live in a Society: Ironic Belonging and Meme-Being in a Post-Public Age
2:30–4:30pm
Tiziana Terranova: Hypersocial Planetarization
Matteo Pasquinelli: Tools, Numbers, Machines and Algorithms: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence
5–6pm
Markus Gabriel: Fiction, Imagination, and Social Facts - The Dialectical Glue of Society
Moderation
Martin Saar, Nassima Sahraoui, Anna Sailer
Concept
Susanne Pfeffer, Anna Sailer
During our workshop we will address these and other questions concerning the relations between time and violence in an interdisciplinary mode, with philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, literature, literary theory, and visual art as our fields of reference. Special emphasis will be put on long, in-depth, free discussion of individual papers. A close reading and discussion of time and violence in Shakespeare’s Hamlet will be an integral part of the workshop. [...]
Ästhetische und Politische Perspektiven | Aesthetic and Political Perspectives
15 January 2020
Depot Wien
Workshop Theme
The protests that spread across the globe most recently, such as the ones in Chile, Hong Kong, Beirut, Fridays for Future etc., stand in a long tradition of resistance movements that span the realms of politics and aesthetics from disputes about the ‘right to resist’ to actual revolts and revolutions, from the uprising of workers to the general strike, from barricades to protests to artistic activism. All social struggles of past and present times even crystallise around theories and practices of resistance. Resistance comprises moments of rejection and refusal, of persistence, and of abstention. It carries the potential to withstand the ruling structures and institutions of oppression and, furthermore, to irritate and disrupt power relations that demand and command a specific way of behaviour or action. Likewise, resistance also bears hopes and expectations for a ‘positive’ change in society, a transformation of our political system, and the epistemological framework we live in.
What exactly do we have in mind when we discuss this highly overdetermined concept of resistance? What actually is resistance, both, in politics and in aesthetics? How can we read the concept and grasp the political and artistic practices of it?
The workshop will explore the limits and potentials of the relation between resistance, politics, and aesthetics from different perspectives, spanning political theory, philosophy, aesthetics and visual arts, and curatorial studies, literature and literary theory.
Organisers: Oliver Marchart (Wien) oliver.marchart[at]univie.ac.at; Nassima Sahraoui (Frankfurt) nassima.sahraoui[at]gmx.org
The workshop is the fifth part of a series of gatherings that fall under the epigraph of “Violence in Philosophy and Literature”.
Walter Benjamin, Outline of the Psychophysical Problem
Although Walter Benjamin’s references to the concept and praxis of eros are sporadic, he appears to be acutely concerned with questions of love and desire from early on. In particular, his writings are deeply engaged with the concept of ἔρως as it appears in Plato’s Symposium, where it is defined as a kind of super-medium in which everything communicates with everything. Benjamin, however, dislocates the concept of eros. In his essay on the “demonic” figure of Karl Kraus, for instance, he attempts to overcome the ambiguous entanglement of spirit and the daimon—or, more precisely, the ‘demonic nature’ of sexuality—by exploring the intimate relationship between eros and language.
Already during his time in the Youth Movement, Benjamin’s engagement with the ambiguous relation between eros and sexuality led him to criticise the commodification of sexuality, whilst at the same time lauding ideas of an “erotic education” in which homosexuality plays a major role.
In later years, especially in the pivotal essay on Goethe’s Elective Affinities, Benjamin approaches the question of eros from different perspectives, namely that of love and institutionalised bonds: on the one hand, he questions the ethical meaning of marriage, while, on the other, he outlines his own anthropological concept of love through a critical reading of Ludwig Klages’ Vom kosmogonischen Eros (1922). Benjamin thus introduces a characteristic tension between a notion of pure love and its finite, experiential iteration.
Finally, in his later writings, Benjamin examines love from a historical perspective. In the Arcades Project as well as in his Baudelaire essay, we find some scattered reflections in which the relationship between eros and aura becomes perspicuous, since both are linked to the interplay of nearness and distance.
During our two-day workshop, we will draw on the manifold meanings of the concept of eros in Benjamin’s work. The event is the sixth in a series of events dealing, directly or indirectly, with Benjamin’s concept of Aktualität. The workshop will be organised around close readings of selected text passages, which allow connections to be drawn between Benjamin’s reflections on philosophy, aesthetics, language, sexuality, and history. Since the workshop revolves around intensive reading sessions, some prior knowledge of the relevant texts is strongly encouraged. Bilingual, German-English copies of the texts will be made available. To facilitate the discussion, the number of participants for this workshop is limited.
This year we will be joined by ESTHER LESLIE (Birkbeck, University of London), who will give a keynote lecture on Eros in Walter Benjamin’s philosophy.
If you are interested to participate, please send a message and a brief biographical note to the organisers before 1 March, 2019.
zwischen diesen beiden Polen ist, so wenig hat es an Brisanz verloren. Nicht zuletzt seit dem Amtsantritt des US–Präsidenten Trump sowie seit dem Erstarken des Populismus in Europa scheint der Konsens der
westlichen Staaten über normative Sicherheitssysteme wie die der UNO oder der Europäischen Union in Gefahr.
Das Seminar soll in einer Einführung anhand zentraler Begriffe zum einen den Nutzen der politischen Philosophie für das Verständnis der aktuellen globalen Krisen aufzeigen; zum anderen diskutiert es die Möglichkeiten und Praxen des Widerstandes.
Deadline: 26.11.2018
The workshop is the fourth part of a series of gatherings that fall under the epigraph of "Violence in Philosophy and Literature". These gatherings were particularly devoted to discuss the question of 'language' (Tel Aviv University), of 'space' (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw), and that of 'writing' (ZfL Berlin) in both fields. As in the previous years, the discussion of the individual papers will be followed by a close reading and discussion of a single literary text and a film screening, which will catalyze the exchange on violence and incorporation.
During our two-day workshop—the fifth in a series of events that deal directly or indirectly with Benjamin’s concept of Aktualität—we will draw on these questions in our discussion of the concept of intensity in Benjamin’s work. The workshop will be organised around a close reading of small passages that touch on the concept of intensity in one way or another and allow to draw connections between Benjamin’s reflections on language, perception, history and the political. Since the workshop
revolves around intensive reading sessions, a precise knowledge of the relevant texts is expected. In order to facilitate the discussion, the number of participants for this workshop is limited. If you are interested to participate, please send a message and a brief biographical note to the organisers before 25 February 2018
The concept of 'intensity' (Intensität) plays a decisive—albeit often almost imperceptible—role in Walter Benjamin's writings. [...] During our two-day workshop—the fifth in a series of events that deal directly or indirectly with Benjamin's concept of Aktualität—we will draw on these questions in our discussion of the concept of intensity in Benjamin's work. The workshop will be organised around a close reading of small passages that touch on the concept of intensity in one way or another and allow to draw connections between Benjamin's reflections on language, perception, history and the political. Since the workshop revolves around intensive reading sessions, a precise knowledge of the relevant texts is expected. In order to facilitate the discussion, the number of participants for this workshop is limited.
If you are interested to participate, please send a message and a brief biographical note to the organisers before 25 February 2018.
Der vorliegende Band versammelt eindrückliche, erhellende und mit dem nötigen Esprit versehene Schriften von Aristoteles über Meister Eckhart, Diderot, Nietzsche, Marx bis hin zu Walter Benjamin, Arendt, Levinas und natürlich Paul Lafargue. Und das ganz ohne Mühe.
The volume brings some of the most articulate young voices in international Benjamin scholarship together, and takes an interdisciplinary approach, covering wide-ranging fields of knowledge – quantum physics, postcolonial studies, natural philosophy, psychoanalysis, film theory, literature, and the arts. Benjamin’s texts are re-considered in light of thinkers and poets, such as Theodor W. Adorno, Sigmund Freud, Gottfried E. Leibniz, W. G. Sebald, Franz Kafka, or Carlos Martínez Rivas. The critical potential of constellations in Benjamin’s work and beyond will be of the highest interest for researchers and students in all areas of the Humanities.
For the second issue of the yearbook NEW BENJAMIN STUDIES, we invite contributions in German and English of a maximum of 8,000 words that address the various figures of relation in Benjamin’s work. We strongly encourage submissions from interdisciplinary perspectives and different intellectual and cultural contexts.
Please submit articles for consideration to new.benjamin.studies[at]gmail.com by September 15, 2024. All submissions will undergo a blind peer-review process, and authors are requested to adhere to the style sheet provided on the NEW BENJAMIN STUDIES website.
For the inaugural issue of the yearbook NEW BENJAMIN STUDIES, we thus invite contributions of up to a maximum of 8,000 words on the theme of Benjamin’s thinking of community – be it on its own terms, in terms of its connections to other areas of Benjamin’s work, and/or in terms of its bearing on present debates. Please submit articles for consideration to [email protected] by 26 th of March 2023. All submissions will undergo a process of blind review and should be formatted according to the style sheet.
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New Benjamin Studies is a peer-reviewed yearbook dedicated to current research into the thought and writing of Walter Benjamin. Publishing articles by both emerging and established scholars, the yearbook aims to foster novel approaches to the work of the German writer, philosopher, critic and translator. Through annual thematic issues, New Benjamin Studies provides a unique platform for exchange among scholars from various parts of the world, offering an insight into the rich variety of present-day readings of Benjamin’s oeuvre. New Benjamin Studies welcomes innovative contributions from all fields of the humanities and beyond.
The volume unveils the immense creativity that crystallizes in these poetic and literary traces and disseminations of Heidegger’s thinking. Hence, it points to new and fruitful ways to critically intervene in current philosophical and literary debates.