Andrew Benjamin
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3634829 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Andrew Benjamin |
| NOMBRES | Andrew |
| APELLIDO | Benjamin |
| FIRMA | BENJAMIN A |
| AFILIACIONES | Institute for Literature |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1989 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Translation, dialogue and conversation
This article offers an analysis of the implicit conception of translation at work in Malebranche's Entretien d'un philosophe chrétien, et d'un philosophe chinois (1708)
The Stay of Poetry
This article has two interrelated projects. The first is to offer a philosophical engagement with the poetry of Norma Cole. The second is, through that engagement, to take up critically aspects of Heidegger’s writings on poetry. Consequently, as well as introducing Cole’s poetry to a wider academic audience, the contention of the article is that the limit of certain philosophical interpretations of poetry — here Heidegger’s — can be found in othe…
Sørensen’s Bataille
In Capitalism, Alienation and Critique, part of the development of Asger S?rensen?s overall argument is a disagreement with Georges Bataille. The crux of the argument is that Bataille?s thinking - especially his conception of subjectivity - is ?apolitical?. The aim of this paper is to investigate the force of this claim. What does it mean for a position - albeit a philosophical one - to be ?apolitical
Listening to God and the Founding of the Law
The aim of this paper is to contribute to the development of a political theology that take both God and law as central. Rather than operate abstractly, the paper works closely on passages from Exodus and Genesis that are themselves linked directly to what is at stake in “listening to God”. The transformation of the immediacy of listening to the necessarily mediated response to the law is the move that the passages from the Torah entail. Within t…
Solidarity, Populism and Covid-19
The presence of COVID-19 has elicited a range of philosophical responses. The aim of this paper is to engage with the position advanced by Giorgio Agamben. Part of the critique of Agamben involves critique of populism. In response to populism the paper advances a different philosophical position this time ground in the concept of solidarity. The work of Hannah Arendt provides the basis for this response
German Stoicisms
Addressing the need for a synoptic study of the diverse reception that Stoicism has received in German philosophy, this volume assesses how modern German philosophers have incorporated ancient resources in the context of their philosophy. Chapters in this volume are devoted to philosophical giants such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Peter Sloterdijk; amongst the Stoics, focus is on texts by Seneca and Epictetus, as we…
Who Were the Faithful
The aim of this paper, which more generally is a contribution to political theology, is to show in what way the conception of peace in Nicholas of Cusa’s De Pace Fidei is dependent upon a specific philosophical anthropology. Within it any link between human being and law is replaced by the subject of faith. Central to the argument is demonstrating the ways in which this anthropological position is necessarily interarticulated with the larger meta…
Introduction
This special issue arose from a workshop on “Peace and Concord from Plato to Lessing”, organised by the editors and which took place at the University of Sydney on 18 and 19 September 2017. Central to the work of both the editors is the relationship between the concepts of ‘concord’, ‘peace’ and ‘dignity’ within a setting created by a concern with the development of a philological anthropology. Their work combines both intellectual history and ph…
On Jewish Being
That the question of identity takes on a sense of urgency, one with its own possibilities and impossibilities, the moment that identity is bound up with death, is hardy surprising. What follows are a series of reflections on the question of identity, Jewish identity, raised by Jean Améry’s remarkable text On the Necessity and Impossibility of Being a Jew (Über Zwang und Unmöglichkeit, Jude zu sein). Améry’s text was of course published in the wak…
The World of Striving
There are clear affinities between the project that can be identified in Walter Benjamin’s short text “Notes to a Study on the Category of Justice” and the philosophy of Kant. The aim of this paper is to show that despite possible affinities there is a fundamental divide concerning how the ‘world’ is thought. Both link justice to the world and yet the world as it appears in each instance is radically distinct. It is in terms of this distinction t…
Towards a Relational Ontology
Recovering Holiness and the Place of Others
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAndrew BenjaminAndrew Benjamin is Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Though at Monash University where he is a member of both the Department of Philosophy and the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilization. He also holds the position of Distinguished Anniversary Professor of Philosophy and the Humanities at Kingston University in London. His recent publications include Of Jews and Animals (2010), Place, C…
Towards an Affective Structure of Subjectivity. Notes on Kant's An Answer to the Question
Abjection, Melancholia and Love
Le paradoxe de la moralité
Morality, Law and the Place of Critique
Critique as a philosophical concept needs to be recast once it is linked to the possibility of a productive opening. In such a context critique has an important affinity to destruction and forms of inauguration. Working through writings of Marx and Walter Benjamin, specifically Benjamin's "The Meaning of Time in the Moral World", destruction and inauguration are repositioned in terns of othering and the caesura of allowing
Informed Faces
The 20-Kilometer University
This piece presents the work of academics and architects in a collaborative venture. It provides an architectural design and a series of statements towards the hypothetical creation of an unconventional city centre in the Chinese city of Shenzhen. The idea is to create a linear university that would run the 20-kilometer length of the Shenzhen Strip: the 20K university. The contributors outline, in the diversity of their idioms, a complex spatial …
Colouring Philosophy
Colour plays a fundamental role in the philosophical treatment of painting. Colour while it is an essential part of the work of art cannot be divorced from the account of painting within which it is articulated. This paper begins with a discussion of the role of colour in Schelling's conception of art. Nonetheless its primary concern is to develop a critical encounter with Jean-François Lyotard's analysis of the Dutch painter Karel Appel. The lim…
What, in truth, is Photography? Notes after Kracauer
1. With photography there always seems to be a problem. It is as though photography is condemned to efface the truth. Be it the truth of time or the truth of memory— in the beginning of course it was the reality of things—photography is deemed to stand in stark opposition to another and more insistent sense of the real. While it will be necessary to take up the question of that to which photography has been opposed, it is best to proceed cautious…
Of Force
Experimentation as a Defence of Literature
Another Naming, a Living Animal
Another Naming, a Living Animal:Blanchot's Community Andrew Benjamin (bio) 1. The dog appears.1 Its head is above the line. Is the dog slipping back? Its head is on the line. Is it submerging again, tasting death as the admixture of fear and the quicksand that will eventually end the ebb and flow of life? Is it scrambling futilely up a bank that no longer holds? The dog is being defined by its eventual death. While still allowing for the severity…
Particularity and Exceptions
This essay presents a critical engagement with Giorgio Agamben's conception of "bare life." Central to the argument is that bareness is produced, and therefore, that which is produced as "bare life" is always marked in advance by the process. What this means is that bareness cannot escape the mark of particularity. This has important implications for how concepts such as sovereignty are understood. The limits of Agamben's position are to be found…
Great Ideas Box Set; Meditations; On Natural Selection; Civilization and Its Discontents; The Christians and the Fall of Rome; On the Pleasure of Hating; The Inner Life; The Prince; The Communist Mani…
Informed Faces
On Jewish Being
That the question of identity takes on a sense of urgency, one with its own possibilities and impossibilities, the moment that identity is bound up with death, is hardy surprising. What follows are a series of reflections on the question of identity, Jewish identity, raised by Jean Améry’s remarkable text On the Necessity and Impossibility of Being a Jew (Über Zwang und Unmöglichkeit, Jude zu sein). Améry’s text was of course published in the wak…
Recovering Holiness and the Place of Others
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAndrew BenjaminAndrew Benjamin is Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Though at Monash University where he is a member of both the Department of Philosophy and the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilization. He also holds the position of Distinguished Anniversary Professor of Philosophy and the Humanities at Kingston University in London. His recent publications include Of Jews and Animals (2010), Place, C…
The 20-Kilometer University
This piece presents the work of academics and architects in a collaborative venture. It provides an architectural design and a series of statements towards the hypothetical creation of an unconventional city centre in the Chinese city of Shenzhen. The idea is to create a linear university that would run the 20-kilometer length of the Shenzhen Strip: the 20K university. The contributors outline, in the diversity of their idioms, a complex spatial …
Colouring Philosophy
Colour plays a fundamental role in the philosophical treatment of painting. Colour while it is an essential part of the work of art cannot be divorced from the account of painting within which it is articulated. This paper begins with a discussion of the role of colour in Schelling's conception of art. Nonetheless its primary concern is to develop a critical encounter with Jean-François Lyotard's analysis of the Dutch painter Karel Appel. The lim…
What, in truth, is Photography? Notes after Kracauer
1. With photography there always seems to be a problem. It is as though photography is condemned to efface the truth. Be it the truth of time or the truth of memory— in the beginning of course it was the reality of things—photography is deemed to stand in stark opposition to another and more insistent sense of the real. While it will be necessary to take up the question of that to which photography has been opposed, it is best to proceed cautious…
Another Naming, a Living Animal
Another Naming, a Living Animal:Blanchot's Community Andrew Benjamin (bio) 1. The dog appears.1 Its head is above the line. Is the dog slipping back? Its head is on the line. Is it submerging again, tasting death as the admixture of fear and the quicksand that will eventually end the ebb and flow of life? Is it scrambling futilely up a bank that no longer holds? The dog is being defined by its eventual death. While still allowing for the severity…
Interpreting Reflections
The redemption of value
Post-Structuralist Classics
Post Structuralist Classics
An exciting and important collection which reveals the diversity of approaches that mark the post-structuralist endeavour, and a challenge to the conventional practice of classical studies and ancient philosophy. This book should be of interest to academics in ancient philosophy, classical studies
Architecture et contrainte
Benjamin Andrew E. Architecture et contrainte. In: Chimères. Revue des schizoanalyses, N°17, automne 1992. Sauve qui peut. pp. 139-154
Philosophy's other
Having to Exist
Judging Terrorism
Being Roman Now
Walter Benjamin's writings on fashion need to be read as engagements with the problem of historical time and a related politics of time. The aim of this article is to develop this position. Its point of orientation is Thesis XIV from the Theses on the Philosophy of History. What is argued is that close attention to the temporality of change and novelty within fashion may allow an insight into a conception of interruption and the 'new', however, i…
Lines and Colours
Placing speaking
Spacing as the Shared
Commonality and Human Being
Great Ideas Box Set; Meditations; On Natural Selection; Civilization and Its Discontents; The Christians and the Fall of Rome; On the Pleasure of Hating; The Inner Life; The Prince; The Communist Mani…
What if the Other were an Animal? Hegel on Jews, Animals and Disease
The question of the other appears to be a uniquely human concern. Engagement with the nature of alterity and the quality of the other are philosophical projects that commence with an assumed anthropocentrism. This anthropocentrism will be pursued by way of Hegel's discussion of "disease" in his Philosophy of Nature. Disease is implicitly bound up with race, racial identity and animality, and provides an opening to the question: what if the other …
Experimentation as a Defence of Literature
Another Naming, a Living Animal
Another Naming, a Living Animal:Blanchot's Community Andrew Benjamin (bio) 1. The dog appears.1 Its head is above the line. Is the dog slipping back? Its head is on the line. Is it submerging again, tasting death as the admixture of fear and the quicksand that will eventually end the ebb and flow of life? Is it scrambling futilely up a bank that no longer holds? The dog is being defined by its eventual death. While still allowing for the severity…
Particularity and Exceptions
This essay presents a critical engagement with Giorgio Agamben's conception of "bare life." Central to the argument is that bareness is produced, and therefore, that which is produced as "bare life" is always marked in advance by the process. What this means is that bareness cannot escape the mark of particularity. This has important implications for how concepts such as sovereignty are understood. The limits of Agamben's position are to be found…
Of Force
Colouring Philosophy
Colour plays a fundamental role in the philosophical treatment of painting. Colour while it is an essential part of the work of art cannot be divorced from the account of painting within which it is articulated. This paper begins with a discussion of the role of colour in Schelling's conception of art. Nonetheless its primary concern is to develop a critical encounter with Jean-François Lyotard's analysis of the Dutch painter Karel Appel. The lim…
What, in truth, is Photography? Notes after Kracauer
1. With photography there always seems to be a problem. It is as though photography is condemned to efface the truth. Be it the truth of time or the truth of memory— in the beginning of course it was the reality of things—photography is deemed to stand in stark opposition to another and more insistent sense of the real. While it will be necessary to take up the question of that to which photography has been opposed, it is best to proceed cautious…
Morality, Law and the Place of Critique
Critique as a philosophical concept needs to be recast once it is linked to the possibility of a productive opening. In such a context critique has an important affinity to destruction and forms of inauguration. Working through writings of Marx and Walter Benjamin, specifically Benjamin's "The Meaning of Time in the Moral World", destruction and inauguration are repositioned in terns of othering and the caesura of allowing
Informed Faces
The 20-Kilometer University
This piece presents the work of academics and architects in a collaborative venture. It provides an architectural design and a series of statements towards the hypothetical creation of an unconventional city centre in the Chinese city of Shenzhen. The idea is to create a linear university that would run the 20-kilometer length of the Shenzhen Strip: the 20K university. The contributors outline, in the diversity of their idioms, a complex spatial …
Towards an Affective Structure of Subjectivity. Notes on Kant's An Answer to the Question
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