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This haunting opening poem, which through eight sections situates its reader in the aftermath of a spectral memory, does not immediately suggest a place so much as the allusive echo of a choir of departed angels. The scene-historic in Walter Benjamin's sense of accumulated ruin-gives voice to such questions and recollections, "singing there in the instant, " a still voice that patently inhabits discrete moments of silence. The seventh section,...

The volume shows how both the distinction and connection between literature and poetry is staged within Heidegger's thought. It offers Heidegger's perspective on a range of key themes, topics, poets, and writers, including Friedrich Hèolderlin, Thomas Mann, Paul Celan, Euripides and Sophocles"--

Benjamin provides new and important readings of key canonical texts in the history of philosophy in his sustained philosophical reworking of ontology. Amongst texts included are Hegel's Difference Essay and the Shorter Logic and Heidegger's Time and Being and The Question of Being. The effective presence of ontology, defined as an original difference', will be familiar to readers of his earlier writings. This book represents his most thorough ...

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Presents a straightforward, step-by-step protocol for mental health professionals who evaluate child custody cases. This book explains the judicial and legal requirements of child custody evaluations, reviews the legal evidentiary standards that pertain to psychological testing, scientific evidence, and the expert witness testimony, and presents a clear, step-by-step evaluation protocol.

Modern literary theory is increasingly looking to philosophy for its inspiration. After a wave of structural analysis, the growing influence of deconstruction and hermeneutic readings continues to bear witness to this. This exciting and important collection, first published in 1988, reveals the diversity of approaches that mark the post-structuralist endeavour, and provides a challenge to the conventional practice of classical studies and anci...

Exploring the relationship between art and philosophy, this treatise argues for a reworking of the task of philosophy in terms of the centrality of ontology. The author explores painting, architecture and literature to elaborate the various aspects of ontological difference.

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Modern literary theory is increasingly looking to philosophy for its inspiration. After a wave of structural analysis, the growing influence of deconstruction and hermeneutic readings continues to bear witness to this. This exciting and important collection, first published in 1988, reveals the diversity of approaches that mark the post-structuralist endeavour, and provides a challenge to the conventional practice of classical studies and anci...

The first collection of papers devoted to the work of Lyotard. It provides an estimation and critique of his writings, and in particular considers the importance to Lyotard of the question of judgement.

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Reprint. Originally published: London, England: Routledge, 1989.

A radical rethinking of ethics set within the development of a philosophical anthropology.

This book provides a highly original approach to the writings of the twentieth-century German philosopher Walter Benjamin by one of his most distinguished readers.

The Frontiers of Theory Series Editor: Martin McQuillan This series brings together internationally respected figures to comment on and re-describe the state of theory in the twenty-first century. It takes stock of an ever-expanding field of knowledge and opens up possible new modes of inquiry within it, identifying new theoretical pathways, innovative thinking and productive motifs. Of Jews and Animals Andrew Benjamin A philosophical concern ...

This collection explores, in Adorno's description, 'philosophy directed against philosophy'. The essays cover all aspects of Benjamin's writings, from his early work in the philosophy of art and language, through to the concept of history. The experience of time and the destruction of false continuity are identified as the key themes in Benjamin's understanding of history.

A highly original examination of topics in ancient philosophy through the lens of modern European thought.

Offers a sustained meditation on the role of interruption in modernity. This book departs from and elaborates an important but overlooked dimension of Walter Benjamin's discourse: the question of style as it bears upon temporality and spatiality. This work suggests that the time has come to revise existing paradigms.

Present Hope" is a compelling exploration of how we think philosophically about the present. Andrew Benjamin considers examples in philosophy, architecture and poetry to illustrate crucial themes of loss, memory, tragedy, hope and modernity. The book uses the work of Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger to illustrate the ways the notion of hope was weaved into their philosophies. Andrew Benjamin maintains that hope is a vital part of the prese...

Interruption is often read as the foundational gesture of modernity--the means through which modernity asserts its existence by claiming its discontinuity with the past. Exposing the limitations of such an understanding, this book offers a very different approach: here, modernity is the site that poses the question of how we are to continue when every attempt to think and understand the present is marked by the necessity of an interruption. Th...