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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays concentrates on the work of Walter Benjamin. Topics covered include: the question of historical understanding versus historicism; Benjamin and the sources of Judaism; feminism and cultural analysis; and images in Benjamin's novels and other writings.
Table of ContentsThe measure of the possible, the weight of the real and the heat of the moment - Benjamin's actuality today, Irving Wohlfarth; from gender images to dialectical images in Benjamin's writings, Sigried Wiegel; the city in pieces, Victor Burgin; Benjamin the intellectual, Zygmunt Bauman; Walter Benjamin - out of the sources of modern Judaism, Gillian Rose; a communicative disclosure of the past - on the relation between anthropology and philosophy of history in Walter Benjamin, Axl Honneth; Shoah, remembrance and the abeyance of fate - Walter Benjamin, feminism and cultural analysis, Andrew Benjamin; aesthetics and anaesthetics - Walter Benjamin's artwork essay reconsidered, Susan Buck-Morris; experience without a subject - Benjamin and the novel, Martin Jay; the aesthetics of conflict, Julian Roberts; the judgement of the angels, Iain Chambers.
