Pablo Oyarzun - Doing Justice

1 Series title Series title Critical South The publication of this series is supported by the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Series editors: Natalia Brizuela and Leticia Sabsay Leonor Arfuch, Memory and Autobiography Aimé Césaire, Resolutely Black Bolívar Echeverría, Modernity and “Whiteness” Celso Furtado, The Myth of Economic Development Eduardo Grüner, The Haitian Revolution María Pia López, Not One Less Pablo Oyarzun, Doing Justice Néstor Perlongher, Plebeian Prose Nelly Richard, Eruptions of Memory Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Ch’ixinakax Utxiwa Tendayi Sithole, The Black Register

2 Title page Doing Justice Three Essays on Walter Benjamin Pablo Oyarzun Translated by Stephen Gingerich polity

3 Copyright page

4 Note on the Texts

5 Introduction – Jacques Lezra Notes

6 Prologue: Doing Justice? Notes

7 1 On Benjamin’s Concept of TranslationPreamble I II Conclusion Notes

8 2 Four Suggestions about Experience, History, and Facticity in the Thought of Walter BenjaminThe First Suggestion Experience History Facticity Notes

9 3 Narration and JusticePreamble The Catastrophe of Experience The Melancholic Difference between Technology and Artisanship Death as Sanction Memory and Temporality Natural History, Myth and Something Else about Memory and Narration Repetition Storytelling and Justice Envoi Notes

10 Bibliography

11 Index

12 End User License Agreement

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The publication of this series is supported by the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Series editors: Natalia Brizuela and Leticia Sabsay

Leonor Arfuch, Memory and Autobiography

Aimé Césaire, Resolutely Black

Bolívar Echeverría, Modernity and “Whiteness”

Celso Furtado, The Myth of Economic Development

Eduardo Grüner, The Haitian Revolution

María Pia López, Not One Less

Pablo Oyarzun, Doing Justice

Néstor Perlongher, Plebeian Prose

Nelly Richard, Eruptions of Memory

Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Ch’ixinakax Utxiwa

Tendayi Sithole, The Black Register

Pablo Oyarzun

Translated by Stephen Gingerich

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Copyright © Pablo Oyarzun, 2020

This English edition © 2020 by Polity Press

Excerpt from Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 2, 1927-1934 , translated by Rodney Livingstone and Others, edited by Michael W. Jennings, Howard Eiland, and Gary Smith, Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Copyright © 1999 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

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Names: Oyarzun R., Pablo, 1950- author. | Gingerich, Stephen, translator.

Title: Doing justice : three essays on Walter Benjamin / Pablo Oyarzun ; translated by Stephen Gingerich.

Other titles: Tres ensayos sobre Benjamin. English

Description: Cambridge ; Medford, MA : Polity, [2020] | Series: Critical south | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “A leading Latin American thinker examines the work of Walter Benjamin and demonstrates its relevance for our understanding of justice”-- Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020005429 (print) | LCCN 2020005430 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509541973 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509541980 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509541997 (epub) | ISBN 9781509543779 (pdf)

Subjects: LCSH: Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940--Political and social views. | Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940--Criticism and interpretation. | Justice in literature.

Classification: LCC PT2603.E455 Z79356 2020 (print) | LCC PT2603.E455 (ebook) | DDC 838/.91209--dc23

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