{"product_id":"walter-benjamin-critical-constellations-9780745610085","title":"Walter Benjamin  Critical Constellations","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe works of Walter Benjamin (1892--1940) are widely acclaimed as being among the most original and provocative writings of twentieth--century critical thought, and have become required reading for scholars and students in a range of academic disciplines.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is an excellent introduction to Benjamin's thought, written with great clarity and richly located within his biography. Gilloch's focus upon Benjamin's reconstruction of the 'afterlife' of things enables him to reveal new interconnections and interpretive trajectories within Benjamin's themes and texts, whether they be his writings on language, literature, the city, the new media or the Arcades Project. A most welcome addition to Polity's series on contemporary thinkers.\" \u003ci\u003eDavid Frisby, University of Glasgow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A fine text to accompany a firsthand reading of Benjamin, such reading is necessary to understand the thinker critiqued here.\" \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The book highlights some major motifs of Benjamin's work and will probably be of interest, above all, to students of media and related aspects of social history or theory\" \u003ci\u003eBrendan Moran, Philosophy in Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Benjamin as a Key Contemporary Thinker 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Immanent Criticism and Exemplary Critique 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Allegory and Melancholy 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 From Cityscape to Dreamworld 88\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Paris and the Arcades 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Culture and Critique in Crisis 140\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Benjamin On-Air, Benjamin on Aura 163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Love at Last Sight 198\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Towards a Contemporary Constellation 234\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 249\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 289\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 298\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Polity Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767971709271,"sku":"9780745610085","price":23.51,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745610085.jpg?v=1758715739","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/walter-benjamin-critical-constellations-9780745610085","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}