Walter Benjamin and Theology

In the Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin writes that his work is “related to theology as blotting pad is related to ink. It is saturated with it.” For a thinker so decisive to critical literary, cultural, political, and aesthetic writings over the past half-century, Benjamin’s relationship to theological matters has been less observed than it should, even despite a variety of at...

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In the Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin writes that his work is “related to theology as blotting pad is related to ink. It is saturated with it.” For a thinker so decisive to critical literary, cultural, political, and aesthetic writings over the past half-century, Benjamin’s relationship to theological matters has been less observed than it should, even despite a variety of attempts over the last four decades to illuminate the theological elements latent within his eclectic and occasional writings. Such attempts, though undeniably crucial to comprehending his thought, remain in need of deepened systematic analysis. In bringing together some of the most renowned experts from both sides of the Atlantic, Walter Benjamin and Theology seeks to establish a new site from which to address both the issue of Benjamin’s relationship with theology and all the crucial aspects that Benjamin himself grappled with when addressing the field and operations of theological inquiry.

Introduction
Colby Dickinson and Stéphane Symons
METAPHYSICS OFTRANSIENCE, NATURALAND SUPERNATURALLIFE, AND APOKATASTASIS
Benjamin’s Messianic Metaphysics of Transience
Annika Thiem
Completion Instead of Revelation: Toward the “Theological-Political Fragment”
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Introduction
Colby Dickinson and Stéphane Symons
METAPHYSICS OFTRANSIENCE, NATURALAND SUPERNATURALLIFE, AND APOKATASTASIS
Benjamin’s Messianic Metaphysics of Transience
Annika Thiem
Completion Instead of Revelation: Toward the “Theological-Political Fragment”
Peter Fenves
Fidelity, Love, Eros: Benjamin’s Bireferential Concept of Life as Developed in “Goethe’s
Elective Affinities”
Sigrid Weigel
The Will to Apokatastasis: Media, Experience, and Eschatology in Walter Benjamin’s
Late Theological Politics
Michael W. Jennings
HISTORICAL, RELIGIOUS, AND PHILOSOPHICAL INFLUENCES
Walter Benjamin’s Jewishness
Howard Eiland
Benjamin’s Natural Theology
Howard Caygill
Walter Benjamin—AModern Marcionite? Scholem’s Benjamin Interpretation
Reexamined
Jacob Taubes
Seminar Notes on Walter Benjamin’s “Theses on the Philosophy of History”
Jacob Taubes
DISLOCATED MESSIANISM: MODERNITY, MARXISM, AND VIOLENCE
On Benjamin’s Baudelaire
Giorgio Agamben
On Vanishing and Fulfillment
Eli Friedlander
Rhythms of the Living, Conditions of Critique: On Judith Butler’s Reading of Walter
Benjamin’s “Critique of Violence”
Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky
One Time Traverses Another: Benjamin’s “Theological-Political Fragment”
Judith Butler
Walter Benjamin and Christian Critical Ethics—AComment
Hille Haker
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Index
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