Table of Contents for Walter Benjamin and the Idea of Natural History

Walter Benjamin and the Idea of Natural History
Eli Friedlander

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Natural in the Human

Part I: Nature in Language

1.God, Nature, and Man in Language

2.Naming Beauty

3.The Life and Afterlife of Words

4.The Life of Forms

Part II: Life and Fate

5.The Guilt and Innocence of Life

6.Fate, Redemption, and Hope in Love

7.Myth, Law, and Life in Common

Part III: Body and Corporeality

8.The Language of the Body and the Body of Language

9.Acting Naturally

Part IV: Primal History

10."From the Pagan Context of Nature into the Jewish Context of History"

11.Matters of Memory

12.First and Second Nature in Art

Part V: The Image of the Contingent

13.Distorted Life

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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