ABSTRACT

The last decade has seen a new wave of interest in philosophical and theoretical circles in the writings of Walter Benjamin. In Body-and Image-Space Sigrid Weigel, one of Germany's leading feminist theorists and a renowned commentator on the work of Walter Benjamin, argues that the reception of his work has so far overlooked a crucial aspect of his thought - his use of images. Weigel shows that it is precisely his practice of thinking in images that holds the key to understanding the full complexity, richness and topicality of Benjamin's theory.

part |1 pages

Politics of images and body

chapter 2|14 pages

‘Body-and image-space’

chapter 3|18 pages

Communicating tubes

part |1 pages

Other—gender—readings

chapter 6|14 pages

From images to dialectical images

chapter 7|10 pages

The ‘other’ in allegory

part |1 pages

Memory and writing

chapter 10|12 pages

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