Community in Walter Benjamin's Philosophy
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The essays contained in the inaugural volume of New Benjamin Studies are dedicated to the concept of 'community' (Gemeinschaft).Indeed, community runs like a thread through many of Benjamin's writings: from his earliest reflections on the German Student Movement, including his 1911 essay on 'The Free School Community', to his ill-fated Habilitation on the Origin of the Mourning Play (1925); and from his early language-philosophical tract 'On Language as Such and on the Language of Man' (1916) to his later, more pointedly materialist city portrait 'Moscow' (1927). For Benjamin, the term entails…mehr

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The essays contained in the inaugural volume of New Benjamin Studies are dedicated to the concept of 'community' (Gemeinschaft).Indeed, community runs like a thread through many of Benjamin's writings: from his earliest reflections on the German Student Movement, including his 1911 essay on 'The Free School Community', to his ill-fated Habilitation on the Origin of the Mourning Play (1925); and from his early language-philosophical tract 'On Language as Such and on the Language of Man' (1916) to his later, more pointedly materialist city portrait 'Moscow' (1927). For Benjamin, the term entails not only a critique of 'national community' (Volksgemeinschaft), but equally an effort to delineate a form of 'ethical community' (sittliche Gemeinschaft) and a 'community of language' (Sprachgemeinschaft). In each case, these figures of community are articulated in response to shifting historical circumstances, including two World Wars, and through an engagement with a wide range of interlocutors. Although Benjamin never systematically expounds the concept of community per se, there is a sense in which it marks a nodal point: an opportunity to rethink the interplay of language, history, and politics in the register of what is common.
Autorenporträt
The editorial collective of the New Benjamins Studies consists of five scholars from Austria, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, and the UK who teach at various academic institutions. Their research centres on the intersections between philosophy and literature, with particular focus on the actuality of Walter Benjamin's writings.