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This book is the first to consider the presence of history and the question of historical practice in Walter Benjamin's work.



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"The essays offer an important range of views from an international array of historians and literary and cultural critics. These essays investigate Benjamin's engagement with the 'materiality of the past and the epistemology and ethics of its recuperation' the world made available 'in language but also beyond language.'"—Len Findlay, The Structuralist, 1997/1998
"The focus on Benjamin and the question of history is extremely welcome. Because Benjamin has been and remains so influential in a variety of academic disciplines, this important scholarly counterweight to the outpouring of more specialized monographic studies is a highly useful contribution."—Richard Wolin, Rice University

Walter Benjamin and the Demands of History

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      Publisher: Cornell University Press
      Publication Date: 27/06/1996
      ISBN13: 9780801482571, 978-0801482571
      ISBN10: 0801482577
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This book is the first to consider the presence of history and the question of historical practice in Walter Benjamin's work.



      Trade Review
      "The essays offer an important range of views from an international array of historians and literary and cultural critics. These essays investigate Benjamin's engagement with the 'materiality of the past and the epistemology and ethics of its recuperation' the world made available 'in language but also beyond language.'"—Len Findlay, The Structuralist, 1997/1998
      "The focus on Benjamin and the question of history is extremely welcome. Because Benjamin has been and remains so influential in a variety of academic disciplines, this important scholarly counterweight to the outpouring of more specialized monographic studies is a highly useful contribution."—Richard Wolin, Rice University

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