What kind of turn is the turn to ethics? A Right turn? A Left turn? A wrong turn? A U-turn? Ethics is back in literary studies, philosophy, and political theory. The philosophers, political theorists, literary critics and physician whose essays are collected here bring the particularities of their disciplines and training to a vital complex of questions.
Of Stones, Animals, Human Beings, and Angels
Walter Benjamin's THE ORIGIN OF GERMAN TRAGIC DRAMA, long considered to be an indecipherable treatise on the German mourning play, has rarely received the attention it deserves as a key text, central to a full understanding of his work. Beatrice Hanssen reinterprets Benjamin's thought through an analysis of the seemingly innocuous figures of stones, animals, and angels that are scattered throughout his writings.