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Walter Benjamin, an aesthetic of redemption (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism 7)

By Richard Wolin

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
1994
ISBN
0520084004, 9780520084001, 0585181349, 9780585181349
LCC
PT2603.E455 Z96 1994
Open Library ID
OL1420158M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1809616 bytes)
Series
Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism
Edition
2 Sub
Pages
393\393
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

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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