El presente trabajo se ocupa de la relación intelectual entre Walter Benjamin y Carl Schmitt. Su punto partida viene dado por célebre misiva a Schmitt propósito origen del Trauerspiel alemán, así como las referencias Teología política que cabe encontrar en obra benjaminiana sobre el barroco. Sin embargo, continuación demuestra importancia La dictadura, Schmitt, para caracterización soberano bar...

The recent publication of a biography by his grandson reminded me of Benjamin Moore senior’s contributions on social medicine.1 The book is dedicated to “Dr. G.A.J. Pitt (who first suggested the biography) and in memory of my father, Dr. T. Moore (1900-1999).” The author was born in Cambridge and saw active service as an officer in the Royal Ulster Rifles in the Korean War (1950-1953). He gradu...

This series of reflections explores historical experiences disruption and migration through the self-elegy Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish memoir German philosopher Walter Benjamin. Benjamin both lived diasporic lives adhered to a notion truth as an aural phenomenon. work takes performed poem told story sites explore suspension reemergence memories, termed imagistic precipitates experience, ex...

This essay takes up the encounter between philosophy and literature through a reconsideration of Walter Benjamin’s remarks from “On Some Motifs in Baudelaire” about Henri Bergson’s Matière et mémoire as an attempt “[t]owering above” other ventures into Lebensphilosophie to “lay hold of the ‘true’ experience, as opposed to the kind that manifests itself in the standardized, denatured life of the...

∗This paper was presented as the Innis Lecture at the 2015 Canadian Economics Association Annual Meeting at York University, Toronto. Parts of this paper are based on joint work with Paul Beaudry and Benjamin Sand. I owe them both a huge debt for all that I have learned from them. I am grateful to Paul Beaudry, Kelly Foley, Andrew Green, Craig Riddell and Benjamin Sand for insightful comments o...