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The Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin
Preview2. Art. forms. Jan Mieszkowski Film today articulates all problems of modern formgiving . . . Walter Benjamin, Arcades It is a foregone conclusion for me that there is no such thing as art history. Walter Benjamin, Letter to F. C. Rang Scarcely any ...
Walter Benjamin - Selected Writings, 1927-1930
Walter BenjaminIn the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, Benjamin emerged as the most original public intellectual in the German-speaking world.
Illuminations
Walter BenjaminThe literary-philosophical works of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) rank among the most quietly influential of the post-war era, though only since his death has Benjamin achieved the fame and critical currency outside his native Germany ...
Walter Benjamin
Esther Lesliethe Concept of History' (London, 2006) Eugene Lunn, Marxism and Modernism; A Historical Study of Lukács, Brecht, Benjamin and Adorno (Berkeley, CA, 1982) Laura Marcus and Lynda Nead, eds, The Actuality of Walter Benjamin (London, ...
The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910-1940
Walter BenjaminIn sum, this magnificent collection is an exceptionally rich source of information and an essential key to understanding one of the preeminent figures of modern culture.
Walter Benjamin and the Antinomies of Tradition
John Joseph McCole"In this book I explore the origins and tensions of Walter Benjamin's dealings with tradition.
The One and Only Law: Walter Benjamin and the Second Commandment
James MartelA radical critique of contemporary legal practices and understandings based on a new consideration of Walter Benjamin’s “Critique of Violence”
Selected Writings: 1938-1940
Walter BenjaminSelections from the canon of Walter Benjamin focus on history, technology, and the nature of modernism, in essays on Charles Baudelaire, the crisis of meaning in the modern world, the value of the written word, and other topics. ...
Walter Benjamin’s Concept of the Image
Alison RossIn this book, Alison Ross engages in a detailed study of Walter Benjamin’s concept of the image, exploring the significant shifts in Benjamin’s approach to the topic over the course of his career.
Illuminations
Walter BenjaminIlluminations contains the most celebrated work of Walter Benjamin, one of the most original and influential thinkers of the 20th Century: 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', ‘The Task of the Translator’ and 'Theses ...
Benjamin for Architects
Brian ElliottThis is a concise, coherent account of the relevance of Walter Benjamin’s writings to architects, locating Benjamin’s critical work within the context of contemporary architecture and urbanism.
Illuminations
Walter BenjaminHannah Arendt selected the essays for this volume and introduces them with a classic essay about Benjamin's life in dark times. Also included is a new preface by Leon Wieseltier that explores Benjamin's continued relevance for our times.
Walter Benjamin and Romanticism
PreviewThrough a detailed and scholarly analysis of the major texts, the book explores the endurance of Benjamin's relationship to Romanticism, the residual presence of Romantic Goethean and H÷lderlinian motifs in Benjamin's subsequent writings ...
Walter Benjamin and the Demands of History
Michael P. Steinberg5 The Collector as Allegorist: Goods, Gods, and the Objects of History Michael P. Steinberg I Between 1934 and 1937, while living in political exile, in financial panic, and in almost total obscurity, Walter Benjamin wrote the life of Eduard Fuchs ...
Walter Benjamin's Grave
Michael TaussigPursuing an adventure that is part ethnography, part autobiography, and part cultural criticism refracted through the object that is Walter Benjamin’s grave, Taussig, with this collection, provides his own literary memorial to the ...
The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades ...
Susan Buck-MorssAn English reconstruction and analysis of Benjamin's Passagen-Werk.
Understanding Brecht (New Edition)
Walter BenjaminCollection of Benjamin's writings on the poetic and dramatic work of his tutor and friend.
The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire
Walter Benjamin" Benjamin reveals Baudelaire as a social poet of the very first rank. The introduction to this volume presents each of Benjamin's essays on Baudelaire in chronological order.
Walter Benjamin: An Intellectual Biography
Bernd WitteThis book provides readers with the opportunity to survey the facts surrounding Benjamin's life and assess the interpretations of his texts.
Modernism at the Microphone: Radio, Propaganda, and Literary ...
Melissa DinsmanSee, for example, Lecia Rosenthal's recent book Radio Benjamin, translated by Jonathan Lutes (London: Verso, 2014). Texts in English written on Benjamin's broadcast work include: Graeme Gilloch, Walter Benjamin: Critical Constellations ...
Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's On the Concept of History
Michael LöwyThis illuminating study of Benjamin's final essay helps unlock the mystery of this great philosopher.
Walter Benjamin: Presence of Mind, Failure to Comprehend
Stéphane SymonsPresence of Mind, Failure to Comprehend Stéphane Symons offers an innovative reading of the work of German philosopher, essayist and literary critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) that characterizes his writings as "neither a-theological, nor ...
Selected Writings: 1935-1938
Walter BenjaminA narrative chronology details Benjamin's life during these four harrowing years of his exile in France and Denmark. This is an essential collection for anyone interested in his work.
On Photography
Walter BenjaminOn Photography presents a new translation of that essay along with a number of other writings by Benjamin, some of them presented in English for the first time.
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Walter IsaacsonBenjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble.
Working with Walter Benjamin: Recovering a Political Philosophy
Andrew BenjaminI would also like to thank Keren Shlezinger and Samuel Cuff Snow for their assistance with the preparation of the manuscript. The Appendices are rewritten versions of papers that have appeared earlier. They have been modified to a greater ...
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Walter IsaacsonPresents a portrait of Benjamin Franklin as a scientist, inventor, diplomat, writer, business strategist, and statesman while tracing his life as one of America's Founding Fathers.
Walter Benjamin's Philosophy: Destruction and Experience
PreviewThis collection explores, in Adorno's description, `philosophy directed against philosophy'. The essays cover all aspects of Benjamin's writings, from his early work in the philosophy of art and language, through to the concept of history.
A Benjamin Franklin Reader
Walter IsaacsonSelected and annotated by the author of the acclaimed Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, this collection of Franklin’s writings shows why he was the bestselling author of his day and remains America’s favorite founder and wit.
Walter Benjamin: The Colour of Experience
Howard CaygillThis book analyses the development of Benjamin's concept of experience in his early writings showing that it emerges from an engagement with visual experience, and in particular the experience of colour.
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