Benjamin'S -Abilities"There is no world of thought that is not a world of language," Walter Benjamin remarked, "and one only sees in the world what is preconditioned by language." In this book, Samuel Weber, a leading theorist on literature and media, reveals a new and productive aspect of Benjamin's thought by focusing on a little discussed stylistic trait in his formulation of concepts. Weber's focus is the critical suffix " ability" that Benjamin so tellingly deploys

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