{"product_id":"walter-benjamin-9780520084001","title":"Walter Benjamin","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn introduction to the life and work of Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish philosopher and literary and cultural critic. The text offers insight into Benjamin's complex relationships with Adorno, Brecht, Jewish Messianism and Western Marxism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The newcomer to Benjamin's work is here in excellent hands.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003e\"A highly successful intellectual biography of Walter Benjamin . . . making an original argument concerning the works and addressing directly the issues raised by Benjamin that are still very much alive in our own time.\" * Theory and Society *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePREFACE\u003cbr\u003e ACKNOWLEDGMENTS\u003cbr\u003e A NOTE ON THE TRANSLATIONS\u003cbr\u003e A NOTE ON TERMINOLOGY\u003cbr\u003e INTRODUCTION TO THE REVISED EDITION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter One\u003cbr\u003e ORIGINS\u003cbr\u003e Childhood and Autobiography\u003cbr\u003e Youth Movement\u003cbr\u003e Romantic Anticapitalism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Two\u003cbr\u003e THE PATH TO TRAUERSPIEL\u003cbr\u003e Experience, Kabbalah, and Language\u003cbr\u003e Messianic Time Versus Historical Time\u003cbr\u003e Allegory\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Three\u003cbr\u003e IDEAS AND THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE\u003cbr\u003e Anti-Historicism\u003cbr\u003e The Essay as Mediation Between Art and\u003cbr\u003e Philosophical Truth\u003cbr\u003e Constellation, Origin, Monad\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Four\u003cbr\u003e FROM MESSIANISM TO MATERIALISM\u003cbr\u003e Radical Communism\u003cbr\u003e One-Way Street and Dialectical Images\u003cbr\u003e Surrealism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Five\u003cbr\u003e BENJAMIN AND BRECHT\u003cbr\u003e \"Crude Thinking\"\u003cbr\u003e Epic Theater\u003cbr\u003e The Author as Producer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Six\u003cbr\u003e THE ADORNO-BENJAMIN DISPUTE\u003cbr\u003e The Philosophical Rapprochement Between Benjamin\u003cbr\u003e and Adorno in the Early 1930s\u003cbr\u003e The Arcades Expose\u003cbr\u003e Art and Mechanical Reproduction\u003cbr\u003e Methodological Asceticism, Magic and Positivism\u003cbr\u003e Beyond the Dispute\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Seven\u003cbr\u003e BENJAMIN'S MATERIALIST THEORY OF\u003cbr\u003e EXPERIENCE\u003cbr\u003e The Disintegration of Community: Novel versus Story\u003cbr\u003e Baudelaire, Modernity, and Shock Experience\u003cbr\u003e Nonsensuous Correspondences\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Eight\u003cbr\u003e \"A L'ECART DE TOUS LES COURANTS\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e NOTES\u003cbr\u003e BIBLIOGRAPHY\u003cbr\u003e INDEX","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402798309719,"sku":"9780520084001","price":29.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520084001.jpg?v=1730481543","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/walter-benjamin-9780520084001","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}