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Introduction; 1. Messianic Epistemology: Thesis XV - Robert Gibbs; 2. Between Melancholia and Fetishism: Benjamin's Losses - Rebecca Comay; 3. Trembling Contours: Kierkegaard - Benjamin - Brecht - Rainer Nagele; 4. Down the K Hole: Walter Benjamin's Destructive Landsurveying of History - Stephanie Polsky; 5. Benjamin and the History of Religion - Howard Caygill; 6. The Shortness of History: On the Thesis - David Ferris; 7. What is the Matter of Architecture History? - Gevoork Hartoonian; 8. Tradition as an Event: Benjamin and the Critics of Historicism - Philippe Simay; 9. Boredom and Distraction: The Moods of Modernity - Andrew Benjamin; 10. 'Now': Walter Benjamin and Historical Time - Wener Hamacher; 11. The Supposition of the Aura: The Now, the Then and Modernity - Georges Didi-Huberman; 12. Benjamin's History of the Interior - Charles Rice.

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      Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/1/2005 12:12:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780826467461, 978-0826467461
      ISBN10: 0826467466
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      Table of Contents
      Introduction; 1. Messianic Epistemology: Thesis XV - Robert Gibbs; 2. Between Melancholia and Fetishism: Benjamin's Losses - Rebecca Comay; 3. Trembling Contours: Kierkegaard - Benjamin - Brecht - Rainer Nagele; 4. Down the K Hole: Walter Benjamin's Destructive Landsurveying of History - Stephanie Polsky; 5. Benjamin and the History of Religion - Howard Caygill; 6. The Shortness of History: On the Thesis - David Ferris; 7. What is the Matter of Architecture History? - Gevoork Hartoonian; 8. Tradition as an Event: Benjamin and the Critics of Historicism - Philippe Simay; 9. Boredom and Distraction: The Moods of Modernity - Andrew Benjamin; 10. 'Now': Walter Benjamin and Historical Time - Wener Hamacher; 11. The Supposition of the Aura: The Now, the Then and Modernity - Georges Didi-Huberman; 12. Benjamin's History of the Interior - Charles Rice.

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