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The actuality of Walter Benjamin / edited by Laura Marcus and Lynda Nead.
Van Pelt Library PT2603.E455 Z566 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940--Criticism and interpretation.
- Benjamin, Walter.
- Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- 224 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Lawrence & Wishart, 1998.
- Summary:
- The boundaries of Walter Benjamin's work still resist classification and demarcation. His writings, including the best-known collection, Illuminations, remain an uneasy but thrilling combination of the actual and the mystical, of Marxism and the messianic utopianism.
- This collection shows how extraordinarily substantial were the footholds which Benjamin supplied: Irving Wohlfarth takes up the troubling question of historical understanding versus historicism in his essay The Actuality of Walter Benjamin. Also included are essays on Benjamin and the sources of Judaism, feminism and cultural analysis, and images in Benjamin's novels and other writings.
- ISBN:
- 0853158630
- OCLC:
- 40610603
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