Walter Benjamin's Other History

Walter Benjamin's Other History
Author: Beatrice Hanssen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1998-03-27
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780520926196

Long considered to be an impenetrable, hermetic treatise, Walter Benjamin's The Origin of German Tragic Drama has rarely received the attention it deserves as a key text, central to a full understanding of his work. In this critically acclaimed study, distinguished Benjamin scholar Beatrice Hanssen unlocks the philosophical and ethical dimensions of his thought with great clarity and sophisitication.

Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography

Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography
Author: Gerhard Richter
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2000
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780814330838

Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography is not merely the most extensive and insightful treatment of Benjamin 's autobiographical writings.

Benjamin's Arcades

Benjamin's Arcades
Author: Peter Buse
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2006-09-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780719069895

'Benjamin's Arcades' is an innovative text for students and specialists on the intellectual and political context of Walter Benjamin's unfinished masterpiece, 'The Arcades Project'. It includes a special 'convoluted index' to aid the reader in discovering recurrent themes and ideas, both in the book itself and Benjamin's methods.

Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin
Author: Howard Caygill
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1998
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780415089593

This 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.