Toward a genealogy of gender in Walter Benjamin's writing

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Walter Benjamin constructs an eroticism without sex by writing about an ambivalent gender quite removed from routine feminist interpretation. Reconstructing gender according to Benjamin involves innocence without the threat of intercourse and conception without birth. In a tribute to the ultimate delay of eroticism, sexuality turns into spirituality, youth turns into old age, and gender roles stretch indefinitely.

Analysis, Gender identity, Androgyny (Psychology), Androgyny

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Rendezvous in Berlin: Benjamin and Kierkegaard on the architecture of repetition

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Writer Walter Benjamin explores Kierkegaard's concept of perpetual recirculation in his work "Repetition." Through a fictitious narrative of a tour through Berlin, Benjamin renders everyday events disjunctive through images and inhabited space rather than continuity. The renegotiation of critical distance renders it indistinguishable from external sites.

Influence, Repetition in literature, Repetition (Literature), Kierkegaard, Soren

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From liberalism to aestheticized politics: modernist reenchantments I

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The history of aestheticized politics is discussed, starting with Friedrich Nietzsche's anti-liberalism and ending with Walter Benjamin's anti-fascism and trying to see what an aesthetic understanding of politics might have promised the early modernists.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, Philosophy, German, German philosophy

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