File spoon-archives/seminar-11.archive/benjamin_1999/seminar-11.9910, message 17


Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 11:33:54 -0400
From: Ralph Dumain <rdumain-AT-igc.org>
Subject: Re: starting the discussion


Dialectical conception of secularization sounds really interesting.  I
could have sworn I just saw something like this phrase in one of my books
on Benjamin, could it be Jennings' DIALECTICAL IMAGES?

FYI, I finally dug up my Benjamin book I couldn't place by name:

'WITH THE SHARPENED AXE OF REASON': APPROACHES TO WALTER BENJAMIN, edited
by Gerhard Fischer.  Oxford; Washington, DC: Berg, 1996.

I've never seen a book from this publisher before.  This is a collection of
essays centered around four large themes: modernity/postmodernity,
gender/utopia, literature/epistelography, performing arts/children's
theatre.  David Frisby's opening essay on Benjamin's prehistory of
modernity is interesting, so far.

At 07:16 AM 10/15/99 -0400, Warren Goldstein wrote:
>I  am attempting to use Benjamin and Bloch's
>connection to Weber and Marx to  further develop a dialectical 
>conception of secularization to be used against  more mainstream 
>arguments prevalent within sociology of religion.



-------- from list seminar-11-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu -------

   

Driftline Main Page

 

Display software: ArchTracker © Malgosia Askanas, 2000-2005