Лекция «Технология неудачи. Вальтер Беньямин как профанный мистик» | Игорь Чубаров

A lecture from the series "Chapters from the History of Jewish Thought." In response to theological and nationalist interpretations of Kafka's work (Max Brod, Gershom Scholem, and others), Walter Benjamin responded with a mystical-materialist reading in a series of essays from the 1930s. The significance of Benjamin's differences with his famous contemporaries—Gershom Scholem, Bertolt Brecht, Werner Kraft, and Theodor Adorno—in their understanding of Kafka's literary nationality, the problems of law, life, and writing, became the subject of this analysis. Lecturer: Igor Chubarov, philosopher and anthropologist. June 1, 2015