This lecture was recorded for the workshop “Working with Benjamin on Law,” 15–17 July 2021.
The workshop was organized by Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa (European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy / New York University, USA), Hannah Franzki (University of Bremen, Germany), and Rafael Vieira (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) as recipients of the “Walter Benjamin Award for Young Researchers” handed out by the International Walter Benjamin Society, the Walter Benjamin Archive, and the Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung. The workshop brings together a group of international Walter Benjamin scholars to explore what Benjamin’s sharp analysis of law offers to those interested in understanding contemporary uses of law.
Andrew Benjamin is Distinguished Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Monash University Melbourne. He is an internationally recognized philosopher and authority on contemporary French and German critical theory. In 2013, he published “Working with Walter Benjamin. Recovering a Political Philosophy” (Edinburgh University Press), providing a highly original approach to the German philosopher. The book develops the idea of ‘working with’ Benjamin, seeking both to read his corpus and to put it to work—to show how a reading of Benjamin can open up issues that may not themselves be immediately at stake in his texts.
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