Annika Thiem’s scientific contributions

In the Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin writes that his work is “related to theology as blotting pad is related to ink. It is saturated with it. Were one to go by the blotter, however, nothing of what is written would remain.” For a thinker so decisive to critical literary, cultural, political and aesthetic writings over the past half-century, Benjamin’s relationship to theological matters has been less observed than it should. This volume aims not to be a mere addition to debates that were opened decades ago, but rather to establish a new site from which to address the issue of Benjamin’s relationship with theology and all the crucial aspects that Benjamin himself grappled with when addressing the field and operations of theological inquiry. In bringing together some of the most renowned experts from both sides of the ocean, this volume seeks to inaugurate a new phase in Anglophone Benjamin scholarship.