Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Abbreviations vii
4. PART ONE Benjamin’s -abilities
5. CHAPTER ONE Introduction 1
6. CHAPTER TWO Prehistory: Kant, Hölderlin—et cetera 11
7. CHAPTER THREE Criticizability—Calculability 20
8. CHAPTER FOUR Impart-ability: Language as Medium 31
9. CHAPTER FIVE Translatability I: Following (Nachfolge) 53
10. CHAPTER SIX Translatability II: Afterlife 79
11. CHAPTER SEVEN Citability—of Gesture 95
12. CHAPTER EIGHT Ability and Style 115
13. CHAPTER NINE An Afterlife of -abilities: Derrida 122
14. PART TWO Legibilities
15. CHAPTER TEN Genealogy of Modernity: History, Myth, and Allegory in Benjamin’s Origin of the German Mourning Play 129
16. CHAPTER ELEVEN Awakening 164
17. CHAPTER TWELVE Taking Exception to Decision: Walter Benjamin and Carl Schmitt 176
18. CHAPTER THIRTEEN Violence and Gesture: Agamben Reading Benjamin Reading Kafka Reading Cervantes . . . 195
19. CHAPTER FOURTEEN Song and Glance: Walter Benjamin’s Secret Names (zugewandt—unverwandt) 211
20. CHAPTER FIFTEEN “Streets, Squares, Theaters” A City on the Move—Walter Benjamin’s Paris 227
21. CHAPTER SIXTEEN God and the Devil—in Detail 240
22. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Closing the Net “Capitalism as Religion” (Benjamin) 250
23. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The Ring as Trauerspiel: Reading Wagner with Benjamin and Derrida 281
24. CHAPTER NINETEEN Reading Benjamin 297
25. CHAPTER TWENTY “Seagulls” 310
26. APPENDIX Walter Benjamin’s “Seagulls” A Translation 325
27. Notes 327
28. Acknowledgments 357
29. Index 359