Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations
Preface: Pedagogy and Experience in Walter Benjamin, Michael Jennings (Princeton University, USA)
Editors' Introduction, Dennis Johannßen (Lafayette College, USA) and Dominik Zechner (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA)
Chronicle of Benjamin's School and Student Years, Dennis Johannßen (Lafayette College, USA) and Dominik Zechner (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA)
Part I: Genealogies of Learning
1. Infans, Clemens-Carl Härle (University of Siena, Italy)
2. Learning from Experience: Elements of Self-Criticism in Benjamin's Works, Charles Gelman (New York University, USA)
3. Leitmotif Siegfried, Laurence A. Rickels (Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Germany)
4. The Child in Benjamin: An Enduring Lesson, Henry Sussman (Yale University, USA)
Part II: Languages of Youth
5. Conversational Pedagogy in Benjamin and Nietzsche, Natasha Hay (University of Toronto, Canada)
6. Speaking Silence: Historical Subjectivity in Nietzsche and Benjamin, Ian Fleishman (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
7. Silence, Medium, Transmission: Benjamin's Metaphysics of Language and Youth, Adi Nester (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
8. "In Voice Land": Benjamin on Air, Ilit Ferber (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
Part III: Envisioning Pedagogical Futures
9. Unfulfilled Historical Time and the Self-Pedagogy of Critique, Gerhard Richter (Brown University, USA)
10. Against the Law: Youth and the Critical Pedagogy of Eternal Rebellion, Michael Powers (Macalester College, USA)
11. Improvision, Thomas Schestag (Brown University, USA)
12. Walter Benjamin and the Anthropocene, Nitzan Lebovic (Lehigh University, USA)
List of Contributors
Index