“…Instead it places itself within a wider philosophical view in line with groundbreaking thoughts about culture and a basic human 'conditionality' among interwar philosophers such as Ernst Cassirer, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Walter Benjamin, and Martin Heidegger. The book also offers a concrete interpretation of examples of religious phenomena displaying a human world-relation that centers on issues of 'truth', 'name', and 'habitation'. …”

“…The book examines the discourse on 'primitive thinking' in the social sciences, writings on art and language, and--most centrally--literary works by Robert Musil, Walter Benjamin, Gottfried Benn, and Robert Müller."--…”

“…Over this period of time, in his written pieces, Consolo turns from the «contastorie consolatorio» (a consoling storyteller) into a Benjamin-style narrator, offering the new generations a progressive life model based on his own youthful experiences. …”

“…Entrevistes amb: Ana Alvargonzález, Gumersindo Andrés, José Luis Arrizabalaga y Biaffra, Antonio Belizón, Wolfgang Burmann, Julio Esteban, Benjamín Fernández, Javier Fernández, Félix Murcia, Rafael Palmero, Gil Parrondo, Josep Rosell, Emilio Ruiz del Río, Luis Vallés, and Gerardo Vera. …”

“…«Sono convinto che i nostri pensieri migliori sono proprio quelli che non riusciamo a pensare completamente» (Lettera del 29 Febbraio 1940 a Walter Benjamin). «La filosofia, quale solo potrebbe giustificarsi al cospetto della disperazione, è il tentativo di considerare tutte le cose come si presenterebbero dal punto di vista della redenzione. …”

“…La frequentarono intellettuali di prim'ordine: Edith Stein, Walter Benjamin, Karl Löwith, Karl Jaspers, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Hans Jonas. …”

“…In the midst of this period of personal crisis and intellectual remaking, he decided to write a poem about Christmas and to have it set to music by his friend Benjamin Britten. Applying for a Guggenheim grant, Auden explained that he understood the difficulty of writing something vivid and distinctive about that most cliched of subjects, but welcomed the challenge. …”

“…In this psychosocial and philosophical reflection that draws upon Foucault, Fanon, Freud, and Benjamin, Butler argues that to oppose violence now requires understanding its different modalities, including the regulation of the grievability of lives. …”

“…Barrio a barrio, calle a calle, descubrimos —en la estela de otros famosos flâneurs berlineses que le precedieron: Walter Benjamin o Franz Hessel— cómo es el Berlín de hoy en día. …”

“…Relisant Rousseau à la lumière de Levinas, Kafka à celle de Benjamin ou George Steiner, Celan à celle de Blanchot, ou le génocide khmer à l'aune de Rithy Panh et Paul Ricoeur, Michaël de Saint-Cheron propose une réflexion sur l'histoire universelle de la honte. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…/ Tom Conley -- The reality of hallucination in André Bazin / Jean-François Chevrier -- Beyond the image in Benjamin and Bazin: the aura of the event / Monica Dall'Asta -- Bazin as modernist / Colin MacCage -- Film and plaster: the mould of history / Jean-Michel Frodon -- From Bazin to Deleuze: a matter of depth / Diane Arnoud -- Deconstruction avant la lettre: Jacques Derrida before André Bazin / Louis-Georges Schwartz -- Aesthetics. …”

“…Steven Rybin's Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film looks closely at the dialogue between Malick's films and our powers of thinking, showing how his work casts the philosophy of thinkers such as Stanley Cavell, Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Andre Bazin, Edgar Morin, and Immanuel Kant in new cinematic light. …”