Volume 6 of Benjamin-Blätter interprets Benjamins works as products of

an inveterate border crosser. Borders and crossing frontiers not only play a

crucial role in Benjamins biography and the afterlife of his texts beyond

Europe, including Israel and Brazil, but they are also fundamental for his

intellectual legacy and the wide variety of his critically acclaimed writings.

Among other topics, the volume investigates exile as an existential experience

in modernity, the aestheticization of politics, and the critique of violence,

while also examining Benjamins relationship to such seminal thinkers

and fellow border crossers as Kant, Nietzsche, Ernst Bloch, Peter Weiss and

Yoko Tawada.

Contributors: Andrew Benjamin, Willi Bolle, Tamara Eisenberg, Rolf J. Goebel,

Bernhard Greiner, Christine Ivanovic, Sven Kramer, Vivian Liska, Mauro

Ponzi, Gerhard Richter, Karl Solibakke, Isaac Tubb, and Bernd Witte.