On Walter Benjamin’s Messianism

Public Lecture by Italian Philosopher Giorgio Agamben on June 14, 2019 No 171/2019 from Jun 12, 2019 Giorgio Agamben, a highly regarded Italian philosopher, will give a public lecture on one of his intellectual role models, the German author and cultural critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). The lecture will take place on June 14, 2019, at Freie Universität Berlin. The lecture will be on Benjamin's Messianism (the idea of a religious or sociopolitical expectation of salvation). Giulio Busi, a professor of Jewish studies at Freie Universität Berlin, will give an introduction to the topic. The event will take place in cooperation with the Italian Culture Institute in Berlin as part of the DediKa 2019 - Giorgio Agamben series. It will be in English, is public, and admission is free. Giorgio Agamben, born in Rome, translated and edited Benjamin's writings into Italian for the publisher Einaudi.