Few twentieth-century thinkers have proven as influential as Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish philosopher and cultural and literary critic. Richard Wolin's book remains among the clearest and most insightful introductions to Benjamin's writings, offering a philosophically rich exposition of his complex relationship to Adorno, Brecht, Jewish Messianism, and Western Marxism. Wo...(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.

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)

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)

In the last forty years, the reputation of the aesthetic of reception has spread throughout continental Europe and North America. Jauss, the most prolific proponent of the aesthetic of reception, has attempted to develop categories to channel conventional literary history into a history of aesthetic experience. In these collected essays, he explores the relation of art history ...(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)

【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 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)