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44. Walter Benjamin and the Architecture of Modernity (Anamnesis) | |
Paperback: 234
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(2009-07-25)
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45. Benjamin's Ghosts: Interventions in Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory | |
Paperback: 365
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(2002-04-18)
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46. On Walter Benjamin: Critical Essays and Recollections (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) | |
Paperback: 400
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(1991-02-19)
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Editorial Review Product Description Hannah Arendt call Walter Benjamin "the outstanding literarycritic of the twentieth century," and his reputation has grown steadilysince she introduced him to English-language readers in 1968 with theselection of essays entitled Illuminations. Although thetranslation of his work into English has been slow in coming, Benjaminhas become something of a literary legend; the legend encompasses bothhis life and his work--a diverse and thoughtful series of writings onart, culture, and society--and the tragic circumstances surrounding hissuicide at Port Bou in 1940. The twelve critical essays collected here are by contemporaries ofBenjamin as well as by younger scholars. Covering the full range of hisinterests, from hashish to Goethe to the modern city, they includeimportant essays by Gershom Scholem, Jürgen Habermas, and CharlesRosen. There are also several moving and evocative recollections ofBenjamin by friends and colleagues such as Theodor Adorno and ErnstBloch. Each essay is introduced by the editor. |
47. Walter Benjamin for Children: An Essay on his Radio Years by Jeffrey Mehlman | |
Hardcover: 126
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(1993-05-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description In Walter Benjamin for Children, readers will encounter a host of intertextual surprises:an evocation of the flooding of the Mississippi informed by the argument of "The Task of the Translator;" a discussion of scams in stamp-collecting that turns into "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction;" a tale of bootlegging in the American South that converges with the best of Benjamin's essays on fiction.Mehlman superimposes a dual series of texts dealing with catastrophe, on the one hand, and fraud, on the other, that resonate with the false- messianic theology of Sabbatianism as it came to focus the attention and enthusiasm of Benjamin's friend Gershom Scholem during the same years.The radio scripts for children, that is, offer an unexpected byway, on the eve of the apocalypse, into Benjamin's messianic preoccupations. A child's garden of deconstruction, these twenty-minute talks--from the perspective of childhood, before an invisible audience, on whatever happened to cross the critic's mind--are also by their very nature the closest we may ever come to a transcript of a psychoanalysis of Walter Benjamin.Particularly alive to that circumstance, Mehlman explores the themes of the radio broadcasts and brilliantly illuminates their hidden connections to Benjamin's life and work. This lucid analysis brings to light some of the least researched and understood aspects of Walter Benjamin's thought.It will interest and provoke literary theorists and philosophers of culture, as well as anyone who hopes to understand one of this century's most suggestive and perplexing critics. |
48. Benjamin's Ground: New Readings of Walter Benjamin (The Culture of Jewish Modernity) | |
Paperback: 190
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(1988-12)
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49. The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) by Susan Buck-Morss | |
Paperback: 505
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(1991-07-01)
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Philosophik Genius.
Wonderful I'm not usually a reader of literary scholarship and excavation.(Hey, I'm in the Army and very busy and I don't have much time to read).But there is something about this book which is fascinating and veryintriguing. Now that "The Arcades Project," Harvard BelknapPress: 1999, has just been published I have been trying to resist buyingthis rather expensive work. But I must say that because of this book I'm"reviewing" here by Susan Buck-Morss , I'm going to have tosuccumb and buy it soon. Ok, this is not a fancy or insightfulexamination of the "why's" and "wherefore's" on mypart. But I encourage any and all readers to trust their guts onthis...what at first seem opaque and in-accessible, gradually unveilssomething crucial about Benjamin's project for ourselves and our cultural,our History. I'm thinking now of what it would be like to find out thatwe have been missing something all along.I mean our Western Culture andits great wonders. Perhaps missing something crucial about ourselves. Maybe this is one way to think of it, reader: and ask yourself thisquestion perhaps. What if what has been shown to us as our history orculture, something we both admire and love, but are at times horrified bycould be like a movie that holds us in its grip. But imagine this moviehas been worked on over many years, and various editors and directors havechanged hands in the creation of the final, definitive print which will beshown to the rest of us. Now, imagine that each director, based onhis/her own sense of things, decided what part of the original film hemight keep and which parts he'd destroy. But some of the editors hated tolet all the spliced out frames be destroyed. And put some of them away in adrawer let's say. Its kind of like Benjamin was searching the arcades,the hidden passage-ways between buildings and looking in the drawers forthe missing frames and was then trying to figure out where to splice theframes back into the original. Now, would the reconstructed film ofourselves, our History and Culture make sense to us?If the originalsequence is still inexplicable to us,or long forgotten, then what else istoo late for us...amidst this century's human rubble? Maybe this is onething to value about Susan Buck-Morss' book. Any reader, knowledgeable ornot about this century's intellectual landscape, knows that there issomething missing in this story about ourselves. Something more intolerableand heartbreaking than a few missing frames from a 2 hour movie. There hasbeen a terrible human cost. We know that not all of the story has beenshown. It will be terrible to forget that we have forgotten. Thus, Benjaminwas trying to un-cover something we have all lost. This seems astounding insome way.
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salon scholarship, deeply flawed first summarization |
50. Benjamin's -abilities by Samuel Weber | |
Hardcover: 376
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(2008-06-30)
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Editorial Review Product Description “There is no world of thought that is not a world of language,” Walter Benjamin remarked, “and one only sees in the world what is preconditioned by language.” In this book, Samuel Weber, a leading theorist on literature and media, reveals a new and productive aspect of Benjamin’s thought by focusing on a little-discussed stylistic trait in his formulation of concepts. Weber’s focus is the critical suffix “-ability” that Benjamin so tellingly deploys in his work. The “-ability” (-barkeit, in German) of concepts and literary forms traverses the whole of Benjamin’s oeuvre, from “impartibility” and “criticizability” through the well-known formulations of “citability,” “translatability,” and, most famously, the “reproducibility” of “The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility.” Nouns formed with this suffix, Weber points out, refer to a possibility or potentiality, to a capacity rather than an existing reality. This insight allows for a consistent and enlightening reading of Benjamin’s writings. Weber first situates Benjamin’s engagement with the “-ability” of various concepts in the context of his entire corpus and in relation to the philosophical tradition, from Kant to Derrida. Subsequent chapters deepen the implications of the use of this suffix in a wide variety of contexts, including Benjamin’s Trauerspiel book, his relation to Carl Schmitt, and a reading of Wagner’s Ring. The result is an illuminating perspective on Benjamin’s thought by way of his language—and one of the most penetrating and comprehensive accounts of Benjamin’s work ever written. Customer Reviews (1)
seagull-ability |
51. Walter Benjamin's Grave by Michael Taussig | |
Paperback: 258
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(2006-08-15)
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Suma ethnographica |
52. The Messianic Reduction: Walter Benjamin and the Shape of Time (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Peter Fenves | |
Paperback: 344
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(2010-12-29)
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53. On The Concept of History by Walter Benjamin | |
Paperback: 24
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(2009-08-11)
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What exactly is this book? |
54. Myth and Metropolis: Walter Benjamin and the City by Graeme Gilloch | |
Paperback: 240
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(1997-12-15)
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A wonderful introduction to Benjamin |
55. Walter Benjamin (Reaktion Books - Critical Lives) by Esther Leslie | |
Paperback: 192
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(2008-01-15)
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56. Walter Benjamin: An Aesthetic of Redemption (Weimar and Now : German Cultural Criticism) by Richard Wolin | |
Paperback: 316
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(1994-03-11)
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57. Walter Benjamin and the Demands of History | |
Paperback: 252
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(1996-07)
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58. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, with eBook (Tantor Unabridged Classics) by Benjamin Franklin | |
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59. Walter Benjamin and Architecture | |
Hardcover: 192
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(2009-11-30)
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Editorial Review Product Description The essays compiled in this book explore aspects of Walter Benjamin’s discourse that have contributed to the formation of contemporary architectural theories. Issues such as technology and history have been considered central to the very modernity of architecture, but Benjamin’s reflection on these subjects has elevated the discussion to a critical level. The contributors in this book consider Walter Benjamin's ideas in the context of digitalization of architecture where it is the very technique itself that determines the processes of design and the final form. This book was published as a special issue of Architectural Theory Review. |
60. One-Way Street and Other Writings (The Verso Classics Series) by Walter Benjamin | |
Paperback: 392
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(1997-01)
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