Titlebook: Politics of Benjamin’s Kafka: Philosophy as Renegade; Brendan Moran Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 Kafka.W

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Anxious Friendliness as Physical Attentivenessng and distorting physicality that does not entirely manifest itself. Philosophy as friendliness must be willing to lend attention to anything, for everything belongs to the unincorporable physicality on behalf of which this friendliness is anxious to offset mythic constraint.

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Exception and Decision: The Extreme and Philosophic Politicsto control or eliminate exceptions and extremes. Benjamin’s philosophic decision is thus distinct from the decision criticized in François Laruelle’s rejection of philosophy. To the slight extent that Benjamin does succumb to the project of eliminating exceptions, however, he betrays his own philosophic politics.

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Brendan MoranReflects on Benjamin’s specifically “philosophical” politics through the lens of his work on Kafka - the first study to do this.Criticizes aspects of Benjamin‘s messianism that envision redemption as

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Gesture of Philosophyture discerned by Benjamin in Kafka and to the correlative gesture of Benjamin’s writing. Unlike some of his critics, Benjamin himself does not characterize his work as gestural, but Adorno might not be wrong in referring to Benjamin’s gesture. The gesture is esoteric not in the sense of binding its

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Unmythic Wisdomrience unabsorbed by such contexts, such myth. The epic life, the most determinant shared life, we remember as “forgotten,” as otherwise not conscious for us. No message, moral, or key frees us entirely from this condition that myth does not adequately address or admit. Scholem, as well as Adorno an

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Foolishness of Philosophyis interest might be, above all, commendation of a wisdom that elicits, gives prominence to, or even somehow promotes, such fools or foolishness. This wisdom would arise both from receptive attention to the tension that the fools represent in relation to discernible closure, and from the previously