Chapter 9 The Dialectical Turn of ‘Primitive Thinking’: The Child and Gesture in Walter Benjamin

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Chapter 1 The Presence of the ‘Primitive’: An Introduction 1
4. Part One: Figures of ‘Primitive Thinking’
5. Chapter 2 The Ethnological Paradigm of the ‘Primitive’ 33
6. Chapter 3 The Child as ‘Primitive’ 75
7. Chapter 4 Psychopathology in the Paradigm of the ‘Primitive’ 110
8. Part Two: Art, Language, and ‘Primitive Thinking’
9. Chapter 5 The Origins of Art 143
10. Chapter 6 ‘Primitive Language’ – Theories of Metaphor 176
11. Part Three: ‘Primitive Thinking’ in German Literary Modernism
12. Chapter 7 The “Tropological Nature” of the Poet in Müller and Benn 205
13. Chapter 8 A Sister in Madness: Figures of ‘Primitive Thinking’ in Robert Musil 236
14. Chapter 9 The Dialectical Turn of ‘Primitive Thinking’: The Child and Gesture in Walter Benjamin 303
15. Epilogue 358
16. Bibliography 361
17. Index 391