In The Angel of History, Mosès looks at three Jewish philosophers—Franz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin, and Gershom Scholem—who formulated a new vision of history in 1920s Germany by moving away from the spirit of assimilation and the Enlightenment belief in humanity's inevitable progress. Instead, they imagined history as discontinuous, made of moments that form no totality but w...(展开全部)

作者简介： 斯台凡•摩西(1931-2007)，法国、以色列双重国籍的当代哲学家。曾在巴黎索邦大学和巴黎第十大学讲授德国哲学与文学。1969年定居耶路撒冷，随后在希伯来大学担任德语系任教，并创立罗森茨维格研究中心即专攻德国-犹太文化和文学史研究中心。他将罗森茨维格的思想介绍到法国，此外，他也是本雅明、卡夫卡、策兰等德文作者的研究专家。主要代表性著作有《爱若斯和律法》《一个传奇的注解——关于卡夫卡的演讲》《回到犹太主义》（与 Victor Malka合著）等等。 译者简介： 梁展，中国社会科学院外国文学研究所研究员、教授、博士生导师，主要从事中西近代思想史、文化史研究，近作有《文明、理性与种族改良：一个大同世界的构想》《帝国的想象：卡夫卡＜中国长城修建时＞中的政治话语》等。

"Der Engel der Geschichte von Stéphane Mosès bietet einen großartigen Einblick in das geschichtsphilosophische Denken Walter Benjamins, Gerschom Scholems und Franz Rosenzweigs. Als gemeinsame Basis ihrer Geschichtskonzepte erläutert Mosès ein Denken, daß sich gegen die Vorstellung von Zeit als eines kontinuierlichen, überraschungsfreien Flusses sträubt. Die Momente der Zeit kön...(展开全部)

In this incisive new work, Eli Friedlander demonstrates that Walter Benjamin's entire corpus, from early to late, comprises a rigorous and sustained philosophical questioning of how human beings belong to nature. Across seemingly heterogeneous writings, Friedlander argues, Benjamin consistently explores what the natural in the human comes to, that is, how nature is transformed,...(展开全部)

In this incisive new work, Eli Friedlander demonstrates that Walter Benjamin's entire corpus, from early to late, comprises a rigorous and sustained philosophical questioning of how human beings belong to nature. Across seemingly heterogeneous writings, Friedlander argues, Benjamin consistently explores what the natural in the human comes to, that is, how nature is transformed,...(展开全部)

From the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republic—and winner of both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes—comes a landmark work that rescues Benjamin Franklin from a mythology that has blinded generations of Americans to the man he really was and makes sense of aspects of his life and career that would have otherwise remained mysterious. In place of the gen...(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)

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)

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.

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)