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Walter Benjamin and the Idea of Natural History
Eli Friedlander

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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Natural in the Human
Part I: Nature in Language
1God, Nature, and Man in Language
2Naming Beauty
3The Life and Afterlife of Words
4The Life of Forms
Part II: Life and Fate
5The Guilt and Innocence of Life
6Fate, Redemption, and Hope in Love
7Myth, Law, and Life in Common
Part III: Body and Corporeality
8The Language of the Body and the Body of Language
9Acting Naturally
Part IV: Primal History
10"From the Pagan Context of Nature into the Jewish Context of History"
11Matters of Memory
12First and Second Nature in Art
Part V: The Image of the Contingent
13Distorted Life
Notes
Bibliography
Index