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A legal biography of Judah P. Benjamin (1811-1884): Jewish lawyer, U.S. Senator, Confederate statesman, political exile, leader of the English Bar, inspiration for Benjamin's Sale of Goods, and distinguished jurist.
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Quels liens unissent le droit et la violence? Peut-il y avoir une violence pure de cette relation au pouvoir? C'est en 1921 que Walter Benjamin se pose ces questions, et publie " Pour une critique de la violence ". Partant des situations les plus concrètes que lui donne à penser la politique, il emmène son analyse dans le champ du mythe, de la théologie, inaugurant une articulation nouvelle entre le concept de violence et la philosophie du langage. Ce travail se propose d'analyser ce texte ligne à ligne afin d'en rendre la vivacité philosophique, la force politique, et le mystère poétique.
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Philosophers --- Communication studies --- Philosophy --- Social Sciences --- Humanities --- philosophie --- Benjamin (Walter) --- Benjamin, Walter, --- Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 --- France
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Yet what surprises me most of all at this time is that what I have written consists, as it were, almost entirely of quotations. - Compositions so produced are to poetry what mosaic is to painting. - It is the craziest mosaic technique you can imagine - and the very mind which directs the hands in formation is incapable of accounting to itself for the origin, the gradations, or the media of the process. Shelley with Benjamin: A critical mosaic is an experiment in comparative reading. Born a century apart, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Walter Benjamin are separated by time, language, temperament and genre - one a Romantic poet known for his revolutionary politics and delicate lyricism, the other a melancholy intellectual who pioneered a dialectical method of thinking in constellations. Yet, as the above montage of citations from their works demonstrates, their ideas are mutually illuminating: the mosaic is but one of several images that both use to describe how literature lives on through practices of citation, translation and critical commentary. In a series of close readings that are by turns playful, erotic and violent, Mathelinda Nabugodi unveils affinities between two writers whose works are simultaneously interventions in literary history and blueprints for an emancipated future. In addition to offering fresh interpretations of both major and minor writings, she elucidates the personal and ethical stakes of literary criticism. Throughout the book, marginal annotations and interlinear interruptions disrupt the faux-objective and colourblind stance of standard academic prose in an attempt to reckon with the barbarism of our past and its legacy in the present. The book will appeal to readers of Shelley and Benjamin as well as those with an interest in comparative literature, literary theory, romantic poetics, and creative critical writing.
Authorship --- Philosophy. --- Benjamin, Walter, --- Shelley, Percy Bysshe,
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Benjamin G. Kohl (1938-2010) taught at Vassar College from 1966 till his retirement as Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities in 2001. His doctoral research at The Johns Hopkins University was directed by Frederic C. Lane, and his principal historical interests focused on northern Italy during the Renaissance, especially on Padua and Venice. His scholarly production includes the volumes Padua under the Carrara, 1318-1405 (1998), and Culture and Politics in Early Renaissance Padua (2001), and the online database The Rulers of Venice, 1332-1524 (2009). The database is eloquent testimony of his priority attention to historical sources and to their accessibility, and also of his enthusiasm for collaboration and sharing among scholars.
Renaissance --- Kohl, Benjamin G. --- Venice (Italy) --- History
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Dès ses premières critiques littéraires, Maurice Blanchot a commenté les plus grands écrivains allemands : Kafka, Thomas Mann, Rilke, Goethe, Eckermann, Hölderlin, Nietzsche, Musil, Broch, Hesse, Celan... Blanchot a toujours lu en allemand. Il connaît parfaitement la philosophie de Hegel à Heidegger, de Scholem à Adorno, ainsi que les œuvres critiques de la littérature et la philosophie allemandes. La plupart de ses œuvres portent d’ailleurs les traces de la culture allemande : les romantiques pour l’écriture fragmentaire, Kafka pour les premiers romans, ou encore Thomas Mann pour certains motifs littéraires. Il n’est pas rare en fait de trouver dans les romans ou les récits de Blanchot des citations à peine réécrites de certaines œuvres germanophones. Cet ouvrage a pour intention de faire le point sur ces correspondances de pensée tout en insistant sur des auteurs plus secondaires pour Blanchot comme Maître Eckhart, Leibniz, Novalis, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Schelling, Benjamin, Freud…
Literature (General) --- philosophie --- littérature --- Heidegger --- Benjamin --- Celan --- Blanchot
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Benjamin Constant (1767-1830) war Abgeordneter der Deputiertenkammer und führender Verfassungstheoretiker des französischen Frühliberalismus. Mit seinem strikt basisorientierten Repräsentationskonzept wandte er sich gegen den von der jakobinischen Revolutionsregierung und Napoleon Bonaparte gleichermaßen erhobenen Anspruch, das Gemeinwohl der französischen Nation von der Spitze des Staates her zu definieren. In zwei Regionalstudien zu von Constant parlamentarisch vertretenen Departements untersucht Peter Geiss, in welcher Weise Constant sein Verständnis von Repräsentation in der Kommunikation mit der politischen Basis umzusetzen vermochte. Deutlich wird, dass der Constantsche Liberalismus in seinen kulturellen Praktiken (dichte briefliche Kommunikation, Presse, Reisen, Petitionskampagnen, Bankette als politische Inklusionsrituale) den sozialelitären Rahmen des restaurationszeitlichen Zensussystems bereits überschritten hatte und wie sehr Constant zu einer beträchtlichen Ausweitung nationaler Öffentlichkeit bis in den dörflichen Bereich hinein beigetragen hat. Ein besonderes Verdienst der Arbeit besteht darin, dass sie politische Ideengeschichte konstruktiv mit Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte verknüpft.
Liberalism --- Representative government and representation --- Political science --- History --- Constant, Benjamin, --- Political and social views. --- France --- Politics and government --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Parliamentary government --- Political representation --- Representation --- Self-government --- Constitutional history --- Constitutional law --- Democracy --- Elections --- Republics --- Suffrage --- Konstan, V., --- Constant de Rebecque, Benjamin, --- Constant-Rebecque, Benjamin de, --- Constant de Rebecque, Benjamin Henri, --- Rebecque, Henri Benjamin Constant de, --- Constant de Rebecque, Henri Benjamin, --- Constant, Beniamin,
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Walter Benjamin est resté célèbre grâce à ses travaux en tant que philosophe, historien de l'art ou encore critique littéraire. Cet ouvrage présente un aspect méconnu de ses activités : entre 1927 et 1933, Benjamin a enregistré une centaine d’interventions au microphone sur les antennes de Berlin et Francfort et s’est efforcé de dépasser les formes journalistiques de pur divertissement. À travers ses chroniques littéraires ou ses contes radiophoniques pour enfants, le philosophe berlinois a souhaité repenser le matériau sonore diffusé sur les ondes. Ce livre original propose d’aller à la rencontre de Walter Benjamin par le prisme de sa voix. Les recherches de Philippe Baudouin à l’origine du présent ouvrage tendent à faire entendre l’écho du philosophe, en proposant de redécouvrir l’intérêt à la fois théorique et pratique dont il témoigna pour la radio. L’ouvrage comprend également des annexes sonores, avec d’une part les deux seuls témoignages sonores du philosophe connus à ce jour, extraits de la pièce radiophonique pour enfants Chahut autour de Kasperl, diffusée à la radio de Cologne le 9 septembre 1932, et d’autre part une interview de Stéphane Hessel réalisée par Philippe Baudouin pour France Culture, dans laquelle ce premier témoigne reconnaître la voix de Benjamin dans le personnage de Kasperl
Philosophie. --- À la radio --- Benjamin, Walter, --- Children's radio programs - Germany - Frankfurt am Main - History - 20th century --- Art and society --- Art and technology --- Art - Philosophy --- Radio - Philosophy --- Benjamin, Walter, - 1892-1940 --- Benjamin, Walter, - 1892-1940 - Knowledge - Communication --- Benjamin, Walter, - 1892-1940 - Criticism and interpretation --- Children's radio programs --- Philosophers --- Communication studies --- Philosophy --- Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 --- France --- philosophie --- Benjamin (Walter) --- Social Sciences --- Humanities --- Social sciences.
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Romance Literatures --- Languages & Literatures --- French Literature --- Constant, Benjamin, --- roman --- narration --- romantisme
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Mentioned in BBC News: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24281727Benjamin Leigh Smith discovered and named dozens of islands in the Arctic but published no account of his pioneering explorations. He refused public accolades and sent stand-ins to deliver the results of his work to scientific societies. Yet, the Royal Geographic Society's Sir Clements R. Markham referred to him as a polar explorer of the first rank.Traveling to the Arctic islands that Leigh Smith explored and crisscrossing England to uncover unpublished journals, diaries, and photographs, archaeologist and writer P. J. Capelotti details Leigh Smith's five major Arctic expeditions and places them within the context of the great polar explorations in the nineteenth century.
Explorers --- Smith, Benjamin Leigh, --- Arctic regions --- Discovery and exploration --- British --- History
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