【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 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)

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)

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 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)

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 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)

作者简介： 迪杰·法桑（Didier Fassin）生于1955年，是法国人类学家和社会学家，兼任法国高等社会科学院和美国普林斯顿高等研究院社会科学领域终身教授，已被任命为法兰西学院公共卫生主席。他曾在塞内加尔、厄瓜多尔、南非和法国进行实地研究。他最近的研究与“惩罚”和“生命”这两个主题有关，前者他在伯克利的坦纳人类价值讲座中有所论述；后者则是他在法兰克福学派大本营“阿多诺纪念讲座”的演讲主题，本书的三个主要章节便根源于此，浓缩并融汇了这位学者毕生工作的精华所在。 译者简介： 边和，1984年生，毕业于北京大学生命科学学院，获哈佛大学科学史博士学位。现任普林斯顿大学历史系与东亚系副教授。