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Pages: 264
Authors: Michael P. Steinberg
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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. Benjamin, the critic and philosoph
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Language: en
Pages: 270
Authors: Andrew Benjamin
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-12-01 - Publisher: A&C Black

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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
Fire Alarm
Language: en
Pages: 161
Authors: Michael Lowy
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-10-04 - Publisher: Verso Books

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This illuminating study of Benjamin’s final essay helps unlock the mystery of this great philosopher Revolutionary critic of the philosophy of progress, nosta
Walter Benjamin's Other History
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Pages: 219
Authors: Beatrice Hanssen
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-12-04 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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In this study, Beatrice Hanssen unlocks the philosophical and ethical dimensions of the Trauerspiel study, showing how its thematics persisted well into the lat
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Pages: 257
Authors: Richard Eldridge
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Human subjects are both formed by historical inheritances and capable of active criticism. Insisting on this fact, Kant and Benjamin each develop powerful, syst