Nebulous Affinities: Walter Benjamin’s Jewishness Revisited. (in collaboration with Dr. Caroline Sauter, Goethe University)

This essay collection aims to reframe Walter Benjamin’s relation to Jewishness as a central aspect of his entire oeuvre, in addition to presenting a closer look at the texts in which he refers to the issue explicitly. Among other topics, essays will address Benjamin as an itinerant intellectual and literary scholar, his aesthetics, his interpretation of Marxism, and his approach to the Bible, to the corpus of traditional Jewish writings, and to religiosity and religious conversion. In addition, the volume will review the reception history of the Jewish dimension of Benjamin’s work by subsequent thinkers and critics.