This important new book is the first of a series of volumes collecting the essential articles by the eminent and highly influential philosopher Saul A. Kripke. It presents a mixture of published and unpublished articles from various stages of Kripke's storied career. Included here are seminal and much discussed pieces such as "Identity and Necessity", "Outline of a Theory of T...(展开全部)

This collection of the legendary thinker’s radio broadcasts brings together some of his most accessible and fascinating thinking Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture, an interest that extended beyond his renowned critical essays. From 1927 to ’33, he wrote and presented something in the region of eighty broadcasts using the new medium of rad...(展开全部)

Benjamin a gagné l'enthousiasme de ses fans tout en poussant à l'extrême sa conception de la bande dessinée. Ce jeune artiste surdoué s'est affirmé, en quelques années, comme un expert en dessin numérique. Très sensible, inquiet pour l'avenir de sa génération, il peint des portraits criants d'émotion, leur visage reflétant le malaise de la jeunesse moderne. Déjà publié dans plu...(展开全部)

Jameson's first full-length engagement with Walter Benjamin's work. The Benjamin Files offers a comprehensive new reading of all of Benjamin's major works and a great number of his shorter book reviews, notes and letters. Its premise is that Benjamin was an anti-philosophical, anti-systematic thinker whose conceptual interests also felt the gravitational pull of his vocation as...(展开全部)

BENJAMIN，新锐漫画人，喜欢画低腰牛仔裤的愤青。他的漫画《记得》《一天》给予国内漫画界强大的冲击，同时还在法国出版并且疯狂再版；他的插画遍布各种杂志；他为徐克的电影《七剑》绘制海报；他设计庞克风格的服装；他的小说《地下室》卖了20万本……他的漫画，有种强烈饱和的色彩饱含内心的力量。他的小说，简洁有力，一点也不装丫挺。

Jameson's first full-length engagement with Walter Benjamin's work. The Benjamin Files offers a comprehensive new reading of all of Benjamin's major works and a great number of his shorter book reviews, notes and letters. Its premise is that Benjamin was an anti-philosophical, anti-systematic thinker whose conceptual interests also felt the gravitational pull of his vocation as...(展开全部)

Review "Reasonably priced, comprehensive edition with good selection of other writings."--Virginia Caris, George Washington University "I really like this edition because of the variety of Franklin's writings represented here. The affordability of this text is greatly appreciated by the students as well."--Lynn Searfoss, Purdue University --This text refers to an out of print o...(展开全部)

The first book to examine in detail Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History Benjamin's collection of fragments, Theses on the Philosophy of History, play a determining role in how Benjamin's thought is understood, as well as in the debate about the interplay between politics, history and time. Walter Benjamin and History is the first volume to give access to the themes a...(展开全部)

In September 1940, Walter Benjamin committed suicide in Port Bou on the Spanish-French 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 anthropology’s—and indeed today’s—most distinctive writers, Michael Taussig, visited Benjamin’s grave in Port Bou. The result is “Walter Benjami...(展开全部)

The works of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) are widely acclaimed as being among the most original and provocative writings of twentieth-century critical thought, and have become required reading for scholars and students in a range of academic disciplines. This book provides a lucid introduction to Benjamin's oeuvre through a close and sensitive reading not only of his major stud...(展开全部)