Benjamins

Walter Benjamin has become a decisive reference point for a whole range of critical disciplines as he constructed a unique and provocative synthesis of aesthetics politics and philosophy. Examining Benjamins contributions to cultural criticism in relation to the works of Max Ernst Adolf Loos Le Corb...

In September 1940 Walter Benjamin committed suicide in Port Bou on the SpanishFrench border when it appeared that he and his travelling partners would be denied passage into Spain in their attempt to escape the Nazis. In 2002 one of anthropologys and indeed todays most distinctive writers Michael ...

This phenomenological exploration of the streets of Dickens dark London opens up new perspectives on the city and the writer. Taking Walter Benjamins Arcades Project as its model Dickens City offers an exciting and original project that opens a dialogue between phenomenology philosophy and the D...

Arguing that the importance of painting and other visual art for Benjamins epistemology has yet to be appreciated Weigel undertakes the first systematic analysis of their significance to his thought. She does so by exploring Benjamins dialectics of secularization an approach that allows Benjamin to ...

JeanMichel Rabate uses Nietzsches image of a pathos of distance the notion that values are created by a few gifted and lofty individuals as the basis for a wideranging investigation into the ethics of the moderns. Revealing overlooked connections between Nietzsches and Benjamins ideas of history a...

Against the Event The Everyday and the Evolution of Modernist Narrative investigates how a modernity famed for temporal acceleration from Benjamins shock and distraction to the postmodern loss of historical consciousness diagnosed by Jameson generated fictions defined strangely enough not just by ...

In Sign Language Interpreting (SLI) there is a great need for a volume devoted to classic and seminal articles and essays dedicated to this specific domain of language interpreting. Students educators and practitioners will benefit from having access to a collection of historical and influential art...

Walter Benjamins magnum opus was a book he did not live to write. In The Dialectics of Seeing Susan BuckMorss offers an inventive reconstruction of the Passagen Werk or Arcades Project as it might have taken form. Working with Benjamins vast files of citations and commentary which contain a myriad ...

Following the journey of eight bargain store objects Alison Hulme reveals the complex story behind societys simplest and cheapest commodities. Inspired by Walter Benjamins Arcades Project On the Commodity Trail explores the colourful and fascinating histories of everyday objects. Along the way we o...

At stake in this book is a struggle with language in a time when our old faith in the redeeming of the wordand the words power to redeemhas almost been destroyed. Drawing on Benjamins political theology his interpretation of the German Baroque mourning play and Adornos critical aesthetic theory but ...

Here Eduardo Cadava demonstrates that Walter Benjamin articulates his conception of history through the language of photography. Focusing on Benjamins discussions of the flashes and images of history he argues that the questions raised by this link between photography and history touch on issues tha...

A landmark now classic study of the rich cinematic history of the Weimar Republic From Caligari to Hitler was first published by Princeton University Press in 1947. Siegfried Kracauera prominent German film critic and member of Walter Benjamins and Theodor Adornos intellectual circlebroke new ground...