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Alex Betancourt
Walter Benjamin said that the realization of dream elements, in the course of waking up, is the paradigm of dialectical thinking. Thus dialectical thinking is the organ of historical awakening…
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In the past two and a half decades, Walter Benjamin’s early essay ‘Towards the Critique of Violence’ (1921) has taken a central place in politico-philosophic debates. The complexity and perhaps…
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James R. Martel
A radical critique of contemporary legal practices and understandings based on a new consideration of Walter Benjamin’s Critique of Violence
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This correspondence between the critic Walter Benjamin and the historian Gershom Scholem began after their student days in Berlin when Scholem emigrated to Palestine. Their correspondence draws the reader into…
Susanne Heil
Revision of the author’s thesis (doctoral)–Universiteat Bremen, 1993.
Monad Rrenban
Through reading the early work of Walter Benjamin-up to and including the Trauerspiel, author Monad Rrenban elicits a cohesive conception of the wild, inforgettable form, philosophy, as inherent in everything…
Through reading the early work of Walter Benjamin, up to and including The Trauerspiel , this book elicits a cohesive conception of the wild, unforgettable form, philosophy, as inherent in…
Kai-Uwe Hasenheit
Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 1994 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Theoretische (Erkenntnis, Wissenschaft, Logik, Sprache), Note: 1, Universiteit Leiden (Philosophische Fakultat), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit betrifft das Verhaltnis der Kunst…
Antoine Berman,Isabelle Berman,Valentina Sommella
The Age of Translation is the first English translation of Antoine Berman’s commentary on Walter Benjamin’s seminal essay ‘The Task of the Translator’. Chantal Wright’s translation includes an introduction which…
Nathan Ross
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…
Vicente Valero
First published in 2001 by Editorial Penainsula.
James Martel
Engaging political and literary luminaries in an alternative narrative about power
Angeliki Spiropoulou
This book analyses the representation of the past and the practice of historiography in the fiction and critical writings of Virginia Woolf, and draws parallels between Woolf’s historiographical imagination and…
Sigrid Weigel
Eleven essays examining the work of German modernist thinker Walter Benjamin, with a central theme of Benjamin as theorist.
Carlo Salzani
The striking actuality of Walter Benjamin’s work does not rest on a supposed usefulness of his philosophy for current concerns, but rather on the high legibility to which his oeuvre…
Robert Ryder
With Walter Benjamin’s notion of the optical unconscious as its starting point, this monograph develops a theory of the acoustical unconscious that refers both to the broadening of acoustic apperception…
Margaret Cohen
Analyzes the links between Breton’s surrealist fusion of psychoanalysis and Marxism and Walter Benjamin’s post-Enlightenment challenge to Marxist theory. This title argues that Breton’s surrealist Marxism played a formative role…
Michael Loewy
This illuminating study of Benjamin’s final essay helps unlock the mystery of this great philosopher
Walter Benjamin Palmer
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
Walter Benjamin Harper
Presents a preliminary analysis of President Obama’s budget and an update of the Congressional Budget Office’s budget and economic outlook. This book consists of public documents which have been located…
Benjamin Walter Frisch
Joshua Lake is about to face man’s ultimate fear, that of Satan. To rise above the death of his wife and children, he will travel into the pits of hell…
Walter Benjamin Hadley
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
Benjamin Walter Keller
Mastering Matplotlib covers the use cases and encounter unusual cases that requires more powerful tools. With the easy to follow examples and high end components of matplotlib, this book will…
Walter Romeyn Benjamin
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
Dieter Sdun
Ausgehend von der Beobachtung, dass zentrale Termini bei Walter Benjamin nicht dem Wissenschaftsideal einer festen Begrifflichkeit entsprechen, wird der Versuch unternommen, das Werk Benjamins aus der Perspektive der spezifischen Bildlichkeit…
Benjamin Trilling
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,0, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum (Germanistisches Institut), Veranstaltung: Krise und Kritik. Walter Benjamins Theorie der Moderne, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract…
This study analyzes the links between Andre Breton’s surrealist fusion of psychoanalysis and Walter Benjamin’s post-Enlightenment challenge to Marxist theory. It argues that Breton’s surrealist Marxism played a role in…
Lerui Liang
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Sonstiges, Note: 1,0, Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (Philosophisches Seminar), Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar: Bild, Bildakt und Bilderverbot. Texte zur Philosophie des Bildes, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract…
L'uvre de Walter Benjamin est un audacieux projet d'histoire, d'art et de pensee. En tant que tout formant un seul et meme fonds, se composant d'innombrables archives: elles rassemblent images…
Caroline Sauter
English summary: The interlinear version of the Holy Scriptures is the prototype or ideal of all translation, says Walter Benjamin in his preface to his translations of Baudelaire’s ‘Tableaux Parisiens’…
Katharina Baessler
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Praktische (Ethik, AEsthetik, Kultur, Natur, Recht, …), Note: 2,0, Hochschule fur Philosophie Munchen, Veranstaltung: Walter Benjamins Kritische Theorie , Sprache: Deutsch…
Stephane Symons
Traces the philosophical relation between Georg Simmel and his one-time student Walter Benjamin, two of the most influential German thinkers of the twentieth century. Reading Simmel’s work alongside Benjamin’s concept…
Rachele Dini
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction combats traditional art criticism’s treatment of artworks as fixed, unchanging mystical objects. For Walter Benjamin, the consequences of addressing a…
Duy Lap Nguyen (University of Houston, USA)
Exploring the connections between Walter Benjamin’s philosophy of history and a Marxian Critique of Political Economy, Duy Lap Nguyen analyses Benjamin’s early writings and their development into a distinct understanding…
James McFarland
Elaborates the relationship between the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and the cultural critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) through close readings of their respective texts as an example of the precariousness of…
UElker Goekberk
This study moves the acclaimed Turkish fiction writer Bilge Karasu (1930-1995) into a new critical arena by examining his poetics of memory, as laid out in his narratives on Istanbul’s…
S. Brent Plate
Walter Benjamin, Religion, and Aesthetics is an innovative and creative attempt to unsettle and reconcieve the key concepts of religious studies through a reading with, and against, Walter Benjamin.
