Walter Benjamin
eBook - ePub

Walter Benjamin

An Aesthetic of Redemption

  1. 316 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Walter Benjamin

An Aesthetic of Redemption

About this book

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. Wolin provides nuanced interpretations of Benjamin's widely studied writings on Baudelaire, historiography, and art in the age of mechanical reproduction. In a new Introduction written especially for this edition, Wolin discusses the unfinished Arcades Project, as well as recent tendencies in the reception of Benjamin's work and the relevance of his ideas to contemporary debates about modernity and postmodernity.


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, offerin

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. CONTENTS
  5. PREFACE
  6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  7. A Note on the Translations
  8. A Note on Terminology
  9. INTRODUCTION to the Revised Edition
  10. Chapter One ORIGINS
  11. Chapter Two THE PATH TO TRA VERSPIEL
  12. Chapter Three IDEAS AND THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE
  13. Chapter Four FROM MESSIANISM TO MATERIALISM
  14. Chapter Five BENJAMIN AND BRECHT
  15. Chapter Six THE ADORNO BENJAMIN DISPUTE
  16. Chapter Seven BENJAMIN’S MATERIALIST THEORY OF EXPERIENCE
  17. Chapter Eight “A L’ÉCART DE TOUS LES COURANTS”
  18. NOTES
  19. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  20. INDEX