This book marks a missed encounter between two of the most influential Marxist thinkers of our age, Walter Benjamin and Antonio Gramsci, studied here for the first time side by side. Benjamin and Gramsci were contemporaries, whose births and deaths took place within a few years of each other in Western Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Two Marxists sui generis,...(展开全部)

An introduction to the work, key ideas and influence of Gramsci, Italian Marxist theorist and political activist. Gramsci was a long term prisoner of the Mussolini regime, hence his most famous writings have been those penned in his cell, including the "Prison Notebooks" and the "Prison Letters." Gramsci's ideas about the the relationships between the rulers and the ruled, abou...(展开全部)

Présentation de l'éditeur Journaliste et militant, Antonio Gramsci arrive à la tête du Parti communiste italien dans les années 1920, puis est arrêté et condamné à vingt ans de prison par le régime fasciste. Il s'éteindra dix ans plus tard, non sans avoir laissé à la postérité ses Cahiers de prison, plus de 2 000 pages manuscrites d'incursions intellectuelles aussi audacieuses ...(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)

【作者】 霍华德·艾兰 耶鲁大学文学博士，曾执教于耶鲁大学、波士顿学院与麻省理工学院。哈佛大学出版社四卷本《本雅明文集》编者与译者。 迈克尔·詹宁斯 弗吉尼亚大学文学博士，普林斯顿大学德语文学教授。哈佛大学出版社四卷本《本雅明文集》编者与译者，另著有Dialectica l Ima ges: Walter Benjamin’s Theory of Literary Criticism。 【译者】 王璞 美国布兰代斯大学副教授、比较文学项目主任。北京大学文学学士（2003）、文学硕士（2006），纽约大学比较文学博士（2012）。曾游学巴黎（2008），参与翻译本雅明《拱廊街计划》手稿，并任法国南特高等研究院研究员（2020）。出版有诗集《宝塔及其他》《新诗·王璞专辑：序章和杂咏》，学术专著The Translatability of Revoluti...(展开全部)

Walter Benjamin is one of the twentieth century’s most important intellectuals, and also one of its most elusive. His writings—mosaics incorporating philosophy, literary criticism, Marxist analysis, and a syncretistic theology—defy simple categorization. And his mobile, often improvised existence has proven irresistible to mythologizers. His writing career moved from the brilli...(展开全部)

Walter Benjamin is often viewed as a cultural critic who produced a vast array of brilliant and idiosyncratic pieces of writing with little more to unify them than the feeling that they all bear the stamp of his "unclassifiable" genius. Eli Friedlander argues that Walter Benjamin's corpus of writings must be recognized as a unique configuration of philosophy with an overarching...(展开全部)

Walter Benjamin is one of the twentieth century’s most important intellectuals, and also one of its most elusive. His writings—mosaics incorporating philosophy, literary criticism, Marxist analysis, and a syncretistic theology—defy simple categorization. And his mobile, often improvised existence has proven irresistible to mythologizers. His writing career moved from the brilli...(展开全部)