Few twentieth-century thinkers have proven as influential as Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish philosopher and cultural and literary critic. Richard Wolin's book remains among the clearest and most insightful introductions to Benjamin's writings, offering a philosophically rich exposition of his complex relationship to Adorno, Brecht, Jewish Messianism, and Western Marxism. Wolin provides nuanced interpretations of Benjamin's widely studied writings on Baudelaire, historiography, and art in the age of mechanical reproduction. In a new Introduction written especially for this edition, Wolin discusses the unfinished Arcades Project, as well as recent tendencies in the reception of Benjamin's work and the relevance of his ideas to contemporary debates about modernity and postmodernity.
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"A highly successful intellectual biography of Walter Benjamin . . . making an original argument concerning the works and addressing directly the issues raised by Benjamin that are still very much alive in our time." -- Susan Buck-Morss, Theory and Society
"The newcomer to Benjamin's work is here in excellent hands." -- Michael Rosen, Times Literary Supplement
"The newcomer to Benjamin's work is here in excellent hands." -- Michael Rosen, Times Literary Supplement
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Richard Wolin is Professor of History at Rice University. His books include The Politics of Being: The Political Thought of Martin Heidegger (1990) and The Terms of Cultural Criticism: The Frankfurt School, Existentialism, Poststructuralism (1992).
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WALTER BENJAMIN was born on July 15, 1892, in Berlin, a time when that city had truly begun to come into its own as a metropolis. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
correct political tendency, nonsensuous correspondences, anthropological materialism, redemptive criticism, mechanically reproduced art, mimetic faculty, messianic cessation, redemptive critique, dialectical images, redeemed life, epic theater, radical communism, early aesthetics, literary struggle, profane illumination, truth content, reconciled life, theological philosophy, temporal index, archaic images, profane life, autonomous art, semantic potentials, commodity society, literary tendency Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Youth Movement, Arcades Project, One-Way Street, World War, Some Motifs, The Theory of the Novel, Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Tree of Knowledge, Golden Age, Soviet Union, Der Moralunterricht, Prince Myshkin, Threepenny Opera, Walter Benjamin, Free School Community, The Paris of the Second Empire, The Task of the Translator, Bernd Witte, Die Idee, Don Quixote, Geschichtsphilosophische Thesen, Theologico-Political Fragment, University of Frankfurt New!
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WALTER BENJAMIN was born on July 15, 1892, in Berlin, a time when that city had truly begun to come into its own as a metropolis. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
correct political tendency, nonsensuous correspondences, anthropological materialism, redemptive criticism, mechanically reproduced art, mimetic faculty, messianic cessation, redemptive critique, dialectical images, redeemed life, epic theater, radical communism, early aesthetics, literary struggle, profane illumination, truth content, reconciled life, theological philosophy, temporal index, archaic images, profane life, autonomous art, semantic potentials, commodity society, literary tendency Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Youth Movement, Arcades Project, One-Way Street, World War, Some Motifs, The Theory of the Novel, Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Tree of Knowledge, Golden Age, Soviet Union, Der Moralunterricht, Prince Myshkin, Threepenny Opera, Walter Benjamin, Free School Community, The Paris of the Second Empire, The Task of the Translator, Bernd Witte, Die Idee, Don Quixote, Geschichtsphilosophische Thesen, Theologico-Political Fragment, University of Frankfurt New!
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- The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin on 39 pages
- Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship (New York Review Books Classics) by Gershom Gerhard Scholem on 19 pages
- The Origin of German Tragic Drama by Walter Benjamin on 14 pages
- One-Way Street and Other Writings (The Verso Classics Series) by Walter Benjamin on 13 pages
- Elective Affinities (Penguin Classics) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on 12 pages
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- Walter Benjamin, Religion and Aesthetics: Rethinking Religion through the Arts by S. Brent Plate on 4 pages
- Walter Benjamin's Other History: Of Stones, Animals, Human Beings, and Angels (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism) by Beatrice Hanssen in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism, and the Colonial Context by Tejaswini Niranjana on page 117, page 158, and Back Matter
- Sappho Is Burning by Page duBois in Front Matter, page 23, and Back Matter
- Exact Imagination, Late Work: On Adorno's Aesthetics (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) by Shierry Weber Nicholsen in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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