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    The Flash of Knowledge and the Temporality of Images: Walter Benjamin’s Image-Based Epistemology and Its Preconditions in Visual Arts and Media History.Sigrid Weigel - 2015 - Critical Inquiry 41 (2):344-366.
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    Body-and Image-Space: Re-Reading Walter Benjamin.Sigrid Weigel - 1996 - New York: Routledge.
    The last decade has seen a new wave of interest in philosophical and theoretical circles in the writings of Walter Benjamin. In _Body-and Image-Space_ Sigrid Weigel, one of Germany's leading feminist theorists and a renowned commentator on the work of Walter Benjamin, argues that the reception of his work has so far overlooked a crucial aspect of his thought - his use of images. Weigel shows that it is precisely his practice of thinking in images that holds the key to (...)
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    (1 other version)Poetics as a Presupposition of Philosophy: Hannah Arendt's Denktagebuch.Sigrid Weigel - 2009 - Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2009 (146):97-110.
    The Denktagebuch, kept by Hannah Arendt from 1950 until 1973, is not only a fascinating parergon, or secondary work, containing many reflections, observations, and notes on other articles that had not, or not yet, taken on their finished form as essays or books. It presents the foundations and premises of her writing that originate from her notebooks—foundations in a literal sense, i.e., those writings that preceded the author's work in political theory. Several entries contain methodological reflections, explanations of definitions, and (...)
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    Grammatologie der Bilder.Sigrid Weigel - 2015 - Berlin: Suhrkamp.
    Das Buch der bekannten Literaturwissenschaftlerin untersucht die Formen des Bildertausches zwischen Wissenschaft, Religion, Kunst und Literatur. Jenseits der Kontroverse zwischen pictorial und linguistic turn geht es um das Wissen der Bilder an der Grenze zwischen Messen und Deuten: an der Schwelle zwischen Spur und Zeichen, Imaginärem und Sichtbarem, Material und Figur, Schauplatz und Erzählung, Daten und Graphik/Begriff. Momente des In-Erscheinung-Tretens stehen im Zentrum: von Bildern im Denken, von Affekten im Gesicht, von Transzendenz in Gemälden oder in der Dichtung. Ausgehend von (...)
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    Walter Benjamin: Images, the Creaturely, and the Holy.Sigrid Weigel - 2013 - Stanford University Press.
    Arguing that the importance of painting and other visual art for Benjamin's epistemology has yet to be appreciated, Weigel undertakes the first systematic analysis of their significance to his thought. She does so by exploring Benjamin's dialectics of secularization, an approach that allows Benjamin to explore the simultaneous distance from and orientation towards revelation and to deal with the difference and tensions between religious and profane ideas. In the process, Weigel identifies the double reference of 'life' to both nature and (...)
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    Handling og erindring, håb og skyld: Arv som generationsbånd hos Arendt, Benjamin, Heine og Freud.Sigrid Weigel - 2021 - Slagmark - Tidsskrift for Idéhistorie 82:17-33.
    The article discusses different but related figures of trans-generational heritage in the writings of Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Heinrich Heine, and Sigmund Freud. The common ground of these German-Jewish authors is an interpretative pattern within the theory of history/memory based in the idea of a strong bond of subsequent generations and their interrelation, which refers back to the biblical origins of the idea of ‘heritage’. Both Heine and Benjamin hypothesize a secret agreement between the generations, which might be read as (...)
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    Zwischen Rauschen Und Offenbarung: Zur Kultur- Und Mediengeschichte der Stimme.Friedrich A. Kittler, Thomas H. Macho & Sigrid Weigel (eds.) - 2002 - De Gruyter.
    In der modernen Öffentlichkeit wird die Stimme als das Medium einer demokratischen und sozialen Ordnung betrachtet; sie steht im Zentrum eines umfangreichen Wortfeldes: Stimmrecht, Abstimmung, Volkes Stimme, eine Stimme haben oder die Stimme ergreifen, oder auch die vielgepriesene Tugend des Übereinstimmens, sei sie nun durch zu-, bei- oder umstimmen zustandegekommen. Ähnlich prominent ist die Stimme im übertragenen Sinne, in der gegenwärtigen Kultur- und Literaturtheorie. Sei es in der berühmten Frage 'Wer spricht?', im Konzept der Polyphonie oder der Intertextualität, in dem (...)
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    (1 other version)Testimony Bearing Witness: Epistemology, Ethics, History and Culture.Sybille Krämer & Sigrid Weigel (eds.) - 2017 - New York: Rowman & Littlefield International.
    Testimony/Bearing Witness establishes a dialogue between the different approaches to testimony in epistemology, historiography, law, art, media studies and psychiatry.
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    Empathy: Epistemic Problems and Cultural-Historical Perspectives of a Cross-Disciplinary Concept.Vanessa Lux & Sigrid Weigel (eds.) - 2017 - London: Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan.
    This book digs into the complex archaeology of empathy illuminating controversies, epistemic problems and unanswered questions encapsulated within its cross-disciplinary history. The authors ask how a neutral innate capacity to directly understand the actions and feelings of others becomes charged with emotion and moral values associated with altruism or caregiving. They explore how the discovery of the mirror neuron system and its interpretation as the neurobiological basis of empathy has stimulated such an enormous body of research and how in a (...)
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    "Der liebe Gott steckt im Detail": Mikrostrukturen des Wissens.Wolfgang Schäffner, Sigrid Weigel & Thomas H. Macho (eds.) - 2003 - München: Fink.
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    The readability of images (and) of history: Laudatio on the occasion of the awarding of the Adorno prize (2015) to Georges didi-huberman.Jan Vanvelk, Michiel Rys & Sigrid Weigel - 2018 - Angelaki 23 (4):42-46.
    This text was delivered as the laudatory speech on the occasion of Didi-Huberman’s receipt of the Adorno prize in 2015. The influence of Adorno’s work on Didi-Huberman’s methodology is clarified, especially Adorno’s reflections on montage, the essayistic style and the anachronism of time. Didi-Huberman thematizes and analyses anachronism as a specific time structure of images. His works stress the similarity of images with the literary montage technique to develop a comprehensive theory of the readability of images – a practice in (...)
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    Between Creation and Last Judgement, the Creaturely and the Holy: Benjamin and Secularization.Sigrid Weigel - 2009 - Paragraph 32 (3):359-381.
    This article analyses how Benjamin takes Kraus's reference to the creaturely as a symptom of an ahistorical attitude which projects the state of genesis, i.e. the world of God's creatures, into history. It reads the essay on Karl Kraus as a main site for Benjamin's dialectical approach to secularization, which is characterized by the distance both from genesis and redemption. The awareness of the fundamental difference which separates human concepts from biblical ideas or words which may be observed in many (...)
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  13. Between Fascination and Compulsive Schmittian Reading : The Traces of Walter Benjamin in Jacob Taubes's Writings.Sigrid Weigel - 2022 - In Herbert Kopp-Oberstebrink & Hartmut von Sass (eds.), Depeche mode: Jacob Taubes between politics, philosophy, and religion. Boston: Brill.
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    Between the Philosophy of Religion and Cultural History: Susan Taubes on the Birth of Tragedy and the Negative Theology of Modernity.Sigrid Weigel - 2010 - Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2010 (150):115-135.
    The caesura of tragedy, more precisely tragedy as the scene of a caesura upon which an interruption occurs in the relation between divine grounds and human will, stands at the center of Susan Taubes's confrontation with tragedy. Moving beyond an explication of generic history, she analyzed the “Nature of Tragedy” (1953) as a phenomenon emerging from a cultural-historical threshold situation, illuminating tragedy's origins in the framework of her approach to ritual, religion, and philosophy. In respect to the history of theory, (...)
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  15. Destra e sinistra nello spazio iconico tra iconografia cristiana e antropologia.Sigrid Weigel - 2012 - Aisthesis: Pratiche, Linguaggi E Saperi Dell’Estetico 5 (2).
    Proceeding from the statement that «reading» images is not at all analogous to any culturally codified lecture of written texts, Sigrid Weigel develops a crucial critic of the anthropological paradigm linked to the left-right problem in the visual arts. Focusing on various examples of painted and sculpted Annunciations, the author argues how the decline of the traditional orientation, based on the figure of God in central position, leads to a growing importance of the spectator gaze and to a new relation (...)
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    Der konventionelle Code als buckliger Zwerg im Dienste der Emotion Recognition.Sigrid Weigel - 2020 - Internationales Jahrbuch Für Medienphilosophie 6 (1):47-80.
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    Der Text der Genetik: Metaphorik als Symptom ungeklärter Probleme wissenschaftlicher Konzepte.Sigrid Weigel - 2002 - In Genealogie Und Genetik: Schnittstellen Zwischen Biologie Und Kulturgeschichte. De Gruyter. pp. 223-246.
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    Flaschenpost und Postkarte: Korrespondenzen zwischen kritischer Theorie und Poststrukturalismus.Sigrid Weigel (ed.) - 1995 - Köln: Böhlau.
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    Grammatology of images: a history of the A-visible.Sigrid Weigel - 2022 - New York: Fordham University Press. Edited by Chadwick Truscott Smith & Sigrid Weigel.
    Grammatology of Images radically alters how we approach images. Instead of asking for the history, power, or essence of images, Sigrid Weigel addresses imaging as such. The book considers how something a-visible gets transformed into an image. Weigel scrutinizes the moment of mis-en-apparition, of making an appearance, and the process of concealment that accompanies any imaging. Weigel reinterprets Derrida's and Freud's concept of the trace as that which must be thought before something exists. In doing so, she illuminates the threshold (...)
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    Genealogie Und Genetik: Schnittstellen Zwischen Biologie Und Kulturgeschichte.Sigrid Weigel (ed.) - 2002 - De Gruyter.
    Die Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Genetik wirft nicht nur ethische Fragen auf, die den Umgang mit ihren Möglichkeiten und Techniken betreffen. Sie führt auch zu einschneidenden Veränderungen tradierter kultureller Konzepte. Diese aber sind bislang weitgehend im Schatten eines verfehlten Streites über 'Vererbung versus Erziehung' geblieben, in dem bekannte Angst- und Wunschbilder einer genetischen Determination oder Steuerung menschlicher Attribute und Verhaltensweisen zirkulieren. Weitgehend unreflektiert dagegen sind bislang jene Zäsuren geblieben, die die Praktiken von Gentechnologie und Reproduktionsmedizin für die 'elementaren Strukturen der Verwandtschaft' und (...)
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    Inkorporation der Genealogie durch die Genetik: Vererbung und Erbschaft an Schnittstellen zwischen Bio- und Kulturwissenschaften.Sigrid Weigel - 2002 - In Genealogie Und Genetik: Schnittstellen Zwischen Biologie Und Kulturgeschichte. De Gruyter. pp. 71-98.
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    „Jüdisches Denken in einer Welt ohne Gott“. Stéphane Mosès’ Ort in der deutschsprachigen Geisteswissenschaft und sein Beitrag zur Kulturwissenschaft.Sigrid Weigel - 2017 - Naharaim 11 (1-2):115-129.
    Name der Zeitschrift: Naharaim Jahrgang: 11 Heft: 1-2 Seiten: 115-129.
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  23. "Kein philosophisches Staunen"-"Schreiben im Staunen": Zum Verhältnis von Philosophie und Literatur nach 1945: Benjamin, Adorno, Bachmann.Sigrid Weigel - 1996 - Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft Und Geistesgeschichte 70:120-137.
    Limits of a (historico-)philosophical discourse vis-a-vis the rutpure in the fabric of civilization marked by the shoah. Examines the textual place of those aspects of history which elude rational analysis.
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    (1 other version)Posthuman Conditions.Sigrid Weigel - 2009 - Zeitschrift für Medien- Und Kulturforschung 1:11-18.
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    The Critique of Violence Or, The challenge to political theology of just wars and terrorism with a religious face.Sigrid Weigel - 2006 - Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2006 (135):61-76.
    I. The New World Order The issue at the center of Giorgio Agamben's book Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (1995), that of the relation of bare life to politics and the law, has, in the ten years since the book's appearance, been propelled so forcefully into the foreground by events on the world political stage that Agamben's central figure has taken on an uncanny actuality.1The images broadcast around the world of Guantánamo Bay appear like visualizations of the homo (...)
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    Der Ort von Frauen im Gedächtnis des Holocaust: Symbolisierung, Zeugenschaft und kollektive Identität.Sigrid Weigel - 1995 - Die Philosophin 6 (12):53-62.
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    Von Gott, dem menschen und der maschine.Sigrid Weigel - 2001 - In Vom Verständnis der Natur (Jahrbuch Einstein-Forum 2000). Akademie Verlag. pp. 13-18.
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    Vom Verständnis der Natur (Jahrbuch Einstein-Forum 2000).Sigrid Weigel - 2001 - Akademie Verlag.
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    Warburg’s “Goddess in Exile”: The “Nymph” Fragment between Letter and Taxonomy, Read with Heinrich Heine.Sigrid Weigel - 2013 - Critical Horizons 14 (3):271-295.
    As regards Aby Warburg’s oeuvre, it is fascinating that three unfinished or unpublished projects have come to represent the very theorems now appearing of most interest for cultural historians and theorists: The Mnemosyne Atlas representing pictorial memory; the Serpent Ritual as theorem for a cultural-anthropological reading of pagan cultures; and the Nymph Fragment as a foundational figure of modern iconology. This essay undertakes an analysis of the fragmentary character of Warburg’s way of working, arguing that his search for an analytic (...)
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