Sparks Will Fly: Benjamin and Heidegger

307 Pages·2015·3.905 MB·English

by  Benjamin, Andrew E., Vardoulakis, Dimitris (eds.)

Sparks Will Fly
SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Dennis J. Schmidt, editor
Sparks Will Fly
Benjamin and Heidegger
Edited by
Andrew Benjamin
and
Dimitris Vardoulakis
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sparks will fly : Benjamin and Heidegger / edited by Andrew Benjamin and Dimitris
Vardoulakis.
pages cm. — (SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4384-5505-1 (hardcover : alk. paper) — EISBN 978-1-4384-5506-8 (ebook)
1. Benjamin, Walter, 1892–1940. 2. Heidegger, Martin, 1889–1976. I. Benjamin,
Andrew E. II. Vardoulakis, Dimitris.
B3209.B584S635 2015
193—dc23
2014012475
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
CONTENTS
Abbreviations vii
Introduction: “Sparks Will Fly”
Andrew Benjamin and Dimitris Vardoulakis xi
Part I. Knowledge
ONE Entanglement—Of Benjamin with Heidegger
Peter Fenves 3
TWO Critique and the Thing: Benjamin and Heidegger
Gerhard Richter 27
Part II. Experience
THREE Stimmung: Heidegger and Benjamin
Ilit Ferber 67
FOUR Commodity Fetishism and the Gaze
A. Kiarina Kordela 95
Part III. Time
FIVE Monad and Time: Reading Leibniz with Heidegger
and Benjamin
Paula Schwebel 123
vi CONTENTS
SIX Time and Task: Benjamin and Heidegger Showing
the Present
Andrew Benjamin 145
Part IV. Hölderlin
SEVEN Who Was Friedrich Hölderlin? Walter Benjamin,
Martin Heidegger, and the Poet
Antonia Egel 177
EIGHT Sobriety, Intoxication, Hyperbology: Benjamin and
Heidegger Reading Hölderlin
Joanna Hodge 189
Part V. Politics
NINE Beyond Revolution: Benjamin and Heidegger on Violence
and Power
Krzysztof Ziarek 219
TEN A Matter of Immediacy: The Political Ontology of the
Artwork in Benjamin and Heidegger
Dimitris Vardoulakis 237
ELEVEN Politics of the Useless: The Work of Art in Benjamin
and Heidegger
David Ferris 259
Biographical Notes 283
Index 287
ABBREVIATIONS
Walter Benjamin:
AP The Arcades Project, trans. Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin (Cam-
bridge, MA: Belknap, 1999). All references to the Convolutes of The
Arcades Project are given parenthetically according Convolute number
without further specification.
BA Briefwechsel 1938–1940: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, ed.
Gershom Scholem (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1994).
BS Briefwechsel 1933–1940: Walter Benjamin, Gerschom Scholem, ed. Ger-
shom Scholem (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1985).
C The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin 1910–1940, ed. Gershom Scho-
lem and Theodor W. Adorno, trans. Manfred R. Jakobson and Evelyn M.
Jakobson (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994).
CA Theodor W. Adorno and Walter Benjamin, The Complete Correspondence
1920–1940, ed. Henri Lonitz, trans. Nicholas Walker (Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 1999).
CS The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem, ed. Ger-
shom Scholem, trans. Gary Smith and André Lefevere (Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 1992).
GB Gesammelte Briefe, ed. Christoph Gödde and Henri Lonitz (Frankfurt am
Main: Suhrkamp, 1995–2000).
GS Gesammelte Schriften, eds. Rolf Tiedemann and Hermann Schweppen-
häuser (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1974 ff.).
OT The Origin of the German Tragic Drama, trans. John Osborne (London:
Verso, 1998).
vii
viii Abbreviations
SW Selected Writings, ed. Michael W. Jennings (Cambridge, MA: Belknap,
1997–2003).
Martin Heidegger:
BPP The Basic Problems of Phenomenology, trans. Albert Hofstadter (Bloom-
ington: Indiana University Press, 1982).
BQP Basic Questions of Philosophy, Selected “Problems” of “Logic,” trans. R.
Rojcewicz and A. Schuwer (Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
1994).
BT Being and Time, trans. John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson (New
York: Harper, 2008).
BW Basic Writings, ed. David Farrell Krell (New York: Routledge, 1993).
CP Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning), trans. Parvis Emad and
Kenneth Maly (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press,
1999).
FCM Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude, trans. W.
McNeill and N. Walker (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995).
GA Gesamtausgabe (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klosterman, 1974 ff.). All
German references to this edition.
HH Hölderlin’s Hymn “The Isther,” trans. William McNeil and Julia Davis
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996).
HP Elucidations of Hölderlin’s Poetry, trans. Keith Höller (Amherst, NY:
Humanity Books, 2000).
IM Introduction to Metaphysics, ed. and trans. Gregory Fried and Richard
Polt (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000).
M Mindfulness, trans. Parvis Emad and Thomas Kalary (London and New
York: Continuum, 2006).
ML The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic, trans. Michael Heim (Blooming-
ton: Indiana University Press, 1984).
N Nietzsche, vol. 4, Nihilism, trans. Frank A. Capuzzi (San Francisco: Harp-
erCollins, 1991).
P Pathmarks, ed. William McNeill (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1998).
PLT Poetry, Language, Thought, trans. Albert Hofstadter (New York: Harper-
Collins, 1971).
QTC The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays (New York: Harper
& Row, 1977).
Abbreviations ix
TB On Time and Being, trans. Joan Stambaugh (New York: Harper & Row,
1972).
WT What Is a Thing?, trans. W.B. Barton Jr. and Vera Deutsch (Chicago: Reg-
nery, 1968).
ZS Zollikon Seminars: Protocols—Conversations—Letters, ed. Medard Boss,
trans. F. Mayr and R. Askay (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University
Press, 2001).