Eli Friedlander
Biographic Data
| ID | 3760599 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eli Friedlander |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eli |
| FAMILY NAME | Friedlander |
| SIGNATURE | FRIEDLANDER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
On Different Ways to the Highest Good
Learning from the Colors of Fantasy
The present essay lays out the central themes in Walter Benjamin’s account of fantasy and its place in the world of the child. It seeks to distinguish a learning from fantasy from what is often called learning from experience. Establishing this distinction leads me to develop in some detail the peculiar concept of a receptive imagination (which Benjamin calls “fantasy”). I set out to contrast it with an active or constructive notion of imaginatio…
Walter Benjamin on Photography and Fantasy
The essay provides a commentary on Walter Benjamin’s “News from Flowers”, a review of the album of plant photography of Karl Blossfeldt. I place Benjamin’s account of Blossfeldt’s achievement both in relation to Goethe’s studies of the vegetal realm as well as to the fantasy world of Grandville’s Animated Flowers. This juxtaposition allows me to interpret Benjamin’s understanding of the possibilities opened by photography and the transformation i…
Matters of Life
This essay reflects on the questions introduced by Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings's biography Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life. In particular, it considers how the biography addresses the difficult problem of drawing together a unity of life and writings in Benjamin's existence. It further seeks to assess how the conception, implicit in their book, of the relation of writing and life relates to Benjamin's own understanding of the nature of th…
Between Communicability and Common Sense
In my commentary, I argue that Ginsborg’s understanding of the primitive normativity in reflective aesthetic judgement should be broadened to account for further characterizations of the judgement of taste given in Kant’s ‘Analytic of the Beautiful’. In particular, I stress the distinction between the consideration of universal communicability, on which Ginsborg focuses, and Kant’s account of common sense. Understanding how the latter notion has …
Assuming Violence
The task of the present commentary on “Critique of Violence” is to bring to light a progression in Walter Benjamin's essay that has important implications for the assessment of the essay's content. One should not take violence as a generic term and view the essay as enumerating different species of it. Rather, Benjamin establishes a hierarchy of forces with inner dependence whose logic, to put it initially as simply as possible, is one of arrogat…
J. J. Rousseau
Setting the Stage, Staging the Voice
Meaning Schematics in Cavell's Kantian Reading of Wittgenstein
A distinctive feature of Cavell's reading of the Philosophical Investigations is the extent to which he takes Wittgenstein's account of language to constitute a translation of the Kantian project of laying out the conditions of possibility of experience, "so that it speaks not alone of deducing twelve categories of the understanding but of deriving - say schematizing - every word in which we speak together "(Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome, p.…
The Measure of the Contingent
The present essay sketches in broad outlines the philosophical armature of Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project by analyzing the central theoretical notion in that incomplete manuscript of his: the dialectical image. So as to bring out the uniqueness of Benjamin's use of image, I consider his account of its relation to language. Rather than setting an opposition between language and image, I argue that language is the medium in which the dialectical…
Discontinued Thinking
Signs of Sense
Abbreviations * Preface * Introduction: Figures of Writing * Part One *1. Logic Apart *2. The Form of Objects *3. We Make to Ourselves Pictures of Facts *4. Signs and Sense *5. The Symbolic Order *6. The Grammar of Analysis *7. Making Sense and Recognizing Meaning *8. Subject and World *9. Ethics in Language *10. A Demanding Silence * Part Two *11. On Some Central Debates Concerning the Tractatus *12. On Wittgenstein's Dissatisfaction with the Tr…
La Jetée
Research Article| February 01 2001 La Jetée: Regarding the Gaze Eli Friedlander Eli Friedlander Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2001) 28 (1): 75–90. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-28-1-75 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Eli Friedlander; La Jetée: Regarding the Gaze. boundary 2 1 February 2001; 28 (1): 75–90. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/0190…
Chambery, 12 June 1754
Soulevant le probleme du mythe de l'etat de nature dans le «Discours sur l'origine de l'inegalite», l'A. etudie la conception du consentement indviduel a la societe civile developpee par Rousseau dans sa lettre de dedicace placee en introduction a l'ouvrage. Soulignant le caractere autobiographique de l'essai politique de Rousseau, l'A. montre que le philosophe fait reference a son experience personnelle de citoyen genevois et de citoyen francais…
Some Thoughts on Kitsch
Eli Friedlander, Some Thoughts on Kitsch, History and Memory, Vol. 9, No. 1/2, Passing into History: Nazism and the Holocaust beyond Memory — In Honor of Saul Friedlander on His Sixty-Fifth Birthday (Fall 1997), pp. 376-392
The Measure of the Contingent
The present essay sketches in broad outlines the philosophical armature of Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project by analyzing the central theoretical notion in that incomplete manuscript of his: the dialectical image. So as to bring out the uniqueness of Benjamin's use of image, I consider his account of its relation to language. Rather than setting an opposition between language and image, I argue that language is the medium in which the dialectical…
Assuming Violence
The task of the present commentary on “Critique of Violence” is to bring to light a progression in Walter Benjamin's essay that has important implications for the assessment of the essay's content. One should not take violence as a generic term and view the essay as enumerating different species of it. Rather, Benjamin establishes a hierarchy of forces with inner dependence whose logic, to put it initially as simply as possible, is one of arrogat…
Walter Benjamin on Photography and Fantasy
The essay provides a commentary on Walter Benjamin’s “News from Flowers”, a review of the album of plant photography of Karl Blossfeldt. I place Benjamin’s account of Blossfeldt’s achievement both in relation to Goethe’s studies of the vegetal realm as well as to the fantasy world of Grandville’s Animated Flowers. This juxtaposition allows me to interpret Benjamin’s understanding of the possibilities opened by photography and the transformation i…
Learning from the Colors of Fantasy
The present essay lays out the central themes in Walter Benjamin’s account of fantasy and its place in the world of the child. It seeks to distinguish a learning from fantasy from what is often called learning from experience. Establishing this distinction leads me to develop in some detail the peculiar concept of a receptive imagination (which Benjamin calls “fantasy”). I set out to contrast it with an active or constructive notion of imaginatio…
Meaning Schematics in Cavell's Kantian Reading of Wittgenstein
A distinctive feature of Cavell's reading of the Philosophical Investigations is the extent to which he takes Wittgenstein's account of language to constitute a translation of the Kantian project of laying out the conditions of possibility of experience, "so that it speaks not alone of deducing twelve categories of the understanding but of deriving - say schematizing - every word in which we speak together "(Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome, p.…
Some Thoughts on Kitsch
Eli Friedlander, Some Thoughts on Kitsch, History and Memory, Vol. 9, No. 1/2, Passing into History: Nazism and the Holocaust beyond Memory — In Honor of Saul Friedlander on His Sixty-Fifth Birthday (Fall 1997), pp. 376-392
Chambery, 12 June 1754
Soulevant le probleme du mythe de l'etat de nature dans le «Discours sur l'origine de l'inegalite», l'A. etudie la conception du consentement indviduel a la societe civile developpee par Rousseau dans sa lettre de dedicace placee en introduction a l'ouvrage. Soulignant le caractere autobiographique de l'essai politique de Rousseau, l'A. montre que le philosophe fait reference a son experience personnelle de citoyen genevois et de citoyen francais…
La Jetée
Research Article| February 01 2001 La Jetée: Regarding the Gaze Eli Friedlander Eli Friedlander Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2001) 28 (1): 75–90. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-28-1-75 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Eli Friedlander; La Jetée: Regarding the Gaze. boundary 2 1 February 2001; 28 (1): 75–90. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/0190…
Discontinued Thinking
Signs of Sense
Abbreviations * Preface * Introduction: Figures of Writing * Part One *1. Logic Apart *2. The Form of Objects *3. We Make to Ourselves Pictures of Facts *4. Signs and Sense *5. The Symbolic Order *6. The Grammar of Analysis *7. Making Sense and Recognizing Meaning *8. Subject and World *9. Ethics in Language *10. A Demanding Silence * Part Two *11. On Some Central Debates Concerning the Tractatus *12. On Wittgenstein's Dissatisfaction with the Tr…
The Measure of the Contingent
The present essay sketches in broad outlines the philosophical armature of Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project by analyzing the central theoretical notion in that incomplete manuscript of his: the dialectical image. So as to bring out the uniqueness of Benjamin's use of image, I consider his account of its relation to language. Rather than setting an opposition between language and image, I argue that language is the medium in which the dialectical…
Meaning Schematics in Cavell's Kantian Reading of Wittgenstein
A distinctive feature of Cavell's reading of the Philosophical Investigations is the extent to which he takes Wittgenstein's account of language to constitute a translation of the Kantian project of laying out the conditions of possibility of experience, "so that it speaks not alone of deducing twelve categories of the understanding but of deriving - say schematizing - every word in which we speak together "(Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome, p.…
Setting the Stage, Staging the Voice
J. J. Rousseau
Assuming Violence
The task of the present commentary on “Critique of Violence” is to bring to light a progression in Walter Benjamin's essay that has important implications for the assessment of the essay's content. One should not take violence as a generic term and view the essay as enumerating different species of it. Rather, Benjamin establishes a hierarchy of forces with inner dependence whose logic, to put it initially as simply as possible, is one of arrogat…
Matters of Life
This essay reflects on the questions introduced by Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings's biography Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life. In particular, it considers how the biography addresses the difficult problem of drawing together a unity of life and writings in Benjamin's existence. It further seeks to assess how the conception, implicit in their book, of the relation of writing and life relates to Benjamin's own understanding of the nature of th…
Between Communicability and Common Sense
In my commentary, I argue that Ginsborg’s understanding of the primitive normativity in reflective aesthetic judgement should be broadened to account for further characterizations of the judgement of taste given in Kant’s ‘Analytic of the Beautiful’. In particular, I stress the distinction between the consideration of universal communicability, on which Ginsborg focuses, and Kant’s account of common sense. Understanding how the latter notion has …
Walter Benjamin on Photography and Fantasy
The essay provides a commentary on Walter Benjamin’s “News from Flowers”, a review of the album of plant photography of Karl Blossfeldt. I place Benjamin’s account of Blossfeldt’s achievement both in relation to Goethe’s studies of the vegetal realm as well as to the fantasy world of Grandville’s Animated Flowers. This juxtaposition allows me to interpret Benjamin’s understanding of the possibilities opened by photography and the transformation i…
Learning from the Colors of Fantasy
The present essay lays out the central themes in Walter Benjamin’s account of fantasy and its place in the world of the child. It seeks to distinguish a learning from fantasy from what is often called learning from experience. Establishing this distinction leads me to develop in some detail the peculiar concept of a receptive imagination (which Benjamin calls “fantasy”). I set out to contrast it with an active or constructive notion of imaginatio…
On Different Ways to the Highest Good
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