Walter Benjamin and History (Walter Benjamin Studies) by Andrew Benjamin (PDF)

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The first book to examine in detail Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History Benjamin’s collection of fragments, Theses on the Philosophy of History, play a determining role in how Benjamin’s thought is understood, as well as in the debate about the interplay between politics, history and time. Walter Benjamin and History is the first volume to give access to the themes and problems raised by the Theses, providing valuable exegetical and historical work on the text. The essays collected here are all the work of noted Benjamin scholars, and pursue the themes central to the Theses.

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Editorial Reviews: Review Mention – Chronicle of Higher Education, Feb 24, 2006″Walter Benjamin has arrived….In the introduction to the collection of essays, the second in the ‘Walter Benjamin Studies Series’, editor Andrew Benjamin describes the intent of the volume as the development of the detail of Benjamin’s thinking on history and, moving with Benjamin’s Gesamtwerk, the exploration of the philosophical, political and theological interconnections of the project…One may come to the end of this collection wondering about the lack of material on how fascism, in its cultural rather than political manifestations, is to be historicized. But this is not to deny the volume’s strength: it allows Benjamin’s thinking on history to emerge not demarcating lines, but rupturing them by calling them into question. As such, Benjamin’s exigency lies in his ability to evade our appropriations and to compel us to read him again.” —Wayne Stables, Philosophy in Review“Walter Benjamin has arrived….In the introduction to the collection of essays, the second in the ‘Walter Benjamin Studies Series’, editor Andrew Benjamin describes the intent of the volume as the development of the detail of Benjamin’s thinking on history and, moving with Benjamin’s Gesamtwerk, the exploration of the philosophical, political and theological interconnections of the project…One may come to the end of this collection wondering about the lack of material on how fascism, in its cultural rather than political manifestations, is to be historicized. But this is not to deny the volume’s strength: it allows Benjamin’s thinking on history to emerge not demarcating lines, but rupturing them by calling them into question. As such, Benjamin’s exigency lies in his ability to evade our appropriations and to compel us to read him again.” –Wayne Stables, Philosophy in Review About the Author Andrew Benjamin is Professor of Critical Theory and Philosophical Aesthetics at Monash University, Australia. His previous publications include: Writing Art and Architecture(Re:press, 2010) Of Jews and Animals (Edinburgh University Press, 2010), Style and Time: Essays on the Politics of Appearance (Northwestern UP, 2006), Disclosing Spaces: On Painting (Clinamen Press, 2004), Philosophy’s Literature (Clinamen Press, 2001) and Present Hope: Philosophy, Aesthetics, Judaism (Routledge, 1997). He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2005.

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