Reading Walter Benjamin: writing through the catastrophe

Reading Walter Benjamin explores the persistence of absolute in Benjamin´s work by sketching-out the relationship between philosophy and theology apparent in his diverse writings, from the early youth-movement essays to the later books, essays and fragments.
Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. Kulturpessimismus and the new thinking; 3. Metaphysics of youth: Wyneken and "Rausch"; 4. History: surreal Messianism; 5. Goethe and the Georgekreis; 6. Kant´s experience; 7. Casting the work of art; 8. Disrupting textual order; 9. Conclusion: exile and the time of crisis.