In response to an overwhelming resurgence of interest in recent years in the work and life of Walter Benjamin, along with a marked increase in the availability of Benjamin's own work (both in the form new translations and new editions of already available texts), this is a timely reappearance of Walter Benjamin's Philosophy - Destruction and Experience - an influential and auth...(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)

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 Ben...(展开全部)

This book provides a study of Walter Benjamin’s first philosophy in two senses: it focuses on his early philosophy as a source of insight into his later works, and it explores his thinking about the nature of truth, method, experience, the relation of body and mind, and the limits of human knowledge.

This work is an absorbing selection of Walter Benjamin's personal manuscripts, images, and documents from his own collection. The works of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin are a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps and fragments of everyday life, arts and dreams. This beautifully designed book gives an insight into Benjamin's habits of collecting and a...(展开全部)

Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator and philosopher. He was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and is the author of Illuminations, The Arcades Project, and The Origin of German Tragic Drama. In 1940, he was in Spain, fleeing the Nazis and en route to the United States, when Franco’s government cancel...(展开全部)

吉奥乔·阿甘本（Giorgio Agamben）（1942～）意大利著名政治哲学家、思想家；任欧洲研究生院（EGS）巴鲁赫·德·斯宾诺莎教授、意大利维罗拉大学美学教授、巴黎国际哲学学院哲学教授，并在德国杜塞尔多夫市海涅大学以及美国多所大学任客座教授，包括加州大学伯克利分校、圣克鲁斯分校、西北大学等。重要著作有《未来共同体》（The Coming community，1993年）《牲人：主权与赤裸生命》（Homo Sacer：Sovereign Power and Bare Life，1998年）、《例外状态》（State of Exception，2005年）等。阿甘本在欧陆哲学传统和人文历史语境中，在对未来共同体的想象性建构中，展开生命、政治、文学、艺术和宗教领域的全面探讨。玄妙深奥的语言风格、融会贯通的思想体系、切实深刻的现世关注，使他成为当今最...(展开全部)

吉奥乔·阿甘本（Giorgio Agamben）（1942～）意大利著名政治哲学家、思想家；任欧洲研究生院（EGS）巴鲁赫·德·斯宾诺莎教授、意大利维罗拉大学美学教授、巴黎国际哲学学院哲学教授，并在德国杜塞尔多夫市海涅大学以及美国多所大学任客座教授，包括加州大学伯克利分校、圣克鲁斯分校、西北大学等。重要著作有《未来共同体》（The Coming community，1993年）《牲人：主权与赤裸生命》（Homo Sacer：Sovereign Power and Bare Life，1998年）、《例外状态》（State of Exception，2005年）等。阿甘本在欧陆哲学传统和人文历史语境中，在对未来共同体的想象性建构中，展开生命、政治、文学、艺术和宗教领域的全面探讨。玄妙深奥的语言风格、融会贯通的思想体系、切实深刻的现世关注，使他成为当今最...(展开全部)

How and why did experience and knowledge become separated? Is it possible to talk of an infancy of experience, a “dumb” experience? For Walter Benjamin, the “poverty of experience” was a characteristic of modernity, originating in the catastrophe of the First World War. For Giorgio Agamben, the Italian editor of Benjamin’s complete works, the destruction of experience no longer...(展开全部)

How and why did experience and knowledge become separated? Is it possible to talk of an infancy of experience, a “dumb” experience? For Walter Benjamin, the “poverty of experience” was a characteristic of modernity, originating in the catastrophe of the First World War. For Giorgio Agamben, the Italian editor of Benjamin’s complete works, the destruction of experience no longer...(展开全部)