TY  - JOUR
A1  - Quiring, Björn
T1  - Pain and memory in Benjamin's mourning play
T2  - Benjamin-Studien
N2  - One of the cruxes of Walter Benjamin’s work is the tension between an indebting and an expiating "memoria", i. e. the afflicting and the salvific insistence of history within the present moment. On the one hand, memory inscribes itself onto spaces and bodies in the violent and painful fashion of Kafka's "Penal Colony" apparatus. On the other hand, it can, in the form of rememoration ('Eingedenken'), sublate these very inscriptions. This sublation usually involves some form of redemptive, timely (re-)verbalization, but Benjamin’s conception of it varies. To gain a better insight into this inherent, varying tension, the article will take a closer look at the connection between pain, memory and law-positing violence in some Benjaminian texts, occasionally relating them to the historical background of his discussion.
KW  - Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels
KW  - Benjamin, Walter
KW  - Erinnerung <Motiv>
KW  - Schmerz <Motiv>
Y1  - 2017
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/44326
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-443265
SN  - 978-3-7705-5782-0
VL  - 3
SP  - 153
EP  - 163
PB  - Wilhelm Fink
CY  - Paderborn
ER  -