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Modern Critical Theory Lecture: WALTER BENJAMIN - Anna Hunt & Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson

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Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
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Lincoln Hall 1000
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Sep 23, 2025   5:15 pm  
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9/23  WALTER BENJAMIN 

Anna Hunt (German, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson (Philosophy, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

  • Benjamin, Walter. "Toward the Critique of Violence" in Toward the Critique of Violence: A Critical Edition, edited by Julia Ng and Peter Fenves. pp. 39-61. Sanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021

  • Benjamin, Walter. "Theses on Philosophy of History" in Illuminations: Essays and Reflections, edited by Hannah Arendt, translated by Harry Zohn. Schocken Books, 1969.

  • Agamben, Giorgio. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, translated by Daniel Heller-Roazen. Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 1998. “Threshold,” pp. 41–43.

  • Schmitt, Carl. Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty, translated by George Schwab. pp. 5-52. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005
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