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The Philology of Life: Walter Benjamin's Critical Program by Kevin McLaughlin 9781531501686
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £76.70The Philology of Life retraces the outlines of the philological project developed by Walter Benjamin in his early essays on Hoelderlin, the Romantics, and Goethe. This philological program,... -
Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life by Lecturer in Literature Howard Eiland 9780674970779
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £20.98Walter Benjamin is one of the twentieth century's most important intellectuals, and also one of its most elusive. His writings-mosaics incorporating philosophy, literary criticism, Marxist analysis,... -
Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution by Margaret Cohen
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.93Margaret Cohen's encounter with Walter Benjamin, one of the twentieth century's most influential cultural and literary critics, has produced a radically new reading of surrealist thought and practice... -
Walter Benjamin: An Introduction to His Work and Thought by Uwe Steiner 9780226772219
Booksplease Price: £94.08Seven decades after his death, German Jewish writer, philosopher, and literary critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) continues to fascinate and influence. Here Uwe Steiner offers a comprehensive and... -
The Fractured Subject: Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud by Betty Schulz 9781538163368
Booksplease Price: £90.57This book investigates the relationship of the work of Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud, centered around Benjamin's fractured subject. Through a reading of Benjamin's work on sovereignty and myth,... -
Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht: The Story of a Friendship by Erdmut Wizisla 9781870352178
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870352178Author Erdmut WizislaFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint LibrisPublisher Libris -
Divine Violence: Walter Benjamin and the Eschatology of Sovereignty James Martel 9780415815246
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.51Divine Violence looks at the question of political theology and its connection to sovereignty. It argues that the practice of sovereignty reflects a Christian eschatology, one that proves very hard... -
Translating Translation: Walter Benjamin on the Way to Language by Veronica O'Neill 9783631671061
RRP: £48.30Booksplease Price: £43.60What is it about Walter Benjamin's "Task of the Translator"? As it is clearly seminal to Translation Studies, why is it rarely taken seriously? This book re-examines Benjamin's text in a... -
Walter Benjamin and Architecture Gevork Hartoonian (University of Canberra, Australia) 9780415851992
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.94The essays compiled in this book explore aspects of Walter Benjamin's discourse that have contributed to the formation of contemporary architectural theories. Issues such as technology and history... -
Archiveology: Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices by Catherine Russell 9780822370451
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £94.11In Archiveology Catherine Russell uses the work of Walter Benjamin to explore how the practice of archiveology-the reuse, recycling, appropriation, and borrowing of archival sounds and images by... -
Revolution and History in Walter Benjamin: A Conceptual Analysis by Alison Ross 9780367664701
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51This book places Benjamin's writing on revolution in the context of his conception of historical knowledge. The fundamental problem that faces any analysis of Benjamin's approach to revolution is... -
Constellations of Reading: Walter Benjamin in Figures of Actuality by Carlo Salzani 9783039118601
RRP: £75.05Booksplease Price: £66.64How to read Walter Benjamin today? This book argues that the proper way is through an approach which recognizes and respects his own peculiar theorization of the act of reading and the politics of... -
Forces of Education: Walter Benjamin and the Politics of Pedagogy by Dennis Johannßen 9781350274167
Booksplease Price: £90.57Bringing Walter Benjamin into dialogue with the urgent issues facing educational institutions today, this is the first comprehensive exploration of his philosophy of education and pedagogy. In recent... -
In the Archive of Longing: Susan Sontag's Critical Modernism by Mena Mitrano 9781474425605
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.68This adventurous critical inquiry into Sontag's archive illuminates the intimate link between modernism and theory while also providing a fascinating reintroduction to these two movements and... -
Subversion and Conformity of Literary Collage: Between Cut and Glue Magda Dragu 9781032689722
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.39Subversion and Conformity of Literary Collage: Between Cut and Glue fills a gap in the current scholarship on literary collage, by addressing how different the interpretations of the concept are,... -
Reading Walter Benjamin: Writing Through the Catastrophe by Richard Lane 9780719064371
Booksplease Price: £23.54'Reading Walter Benjamin' explores the persistence of absolute in Benjamin's work by sketching-out the relationship between philosphy and theology apparent in his diverse writings, from the early... -
Walter Benjamin and Antonio Gramsci: A Missed Encounter Dario Gentili 9781032599700
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This book marks a missed encounter between two of the most influential Marxist thinkers of our age, Walter Benjamin and Antonio Gramsci, studied here for the first time side by side.Benjamin and... -
Forces of Education: Walter Benjamin and the Politics of Pedagogy Dennis Johannßen 9781350274204
Booksplease Price: £31.52Bringing Walter Benjamin into dialogue with the urgent issues facing educational institutions today, this is the first comprehensive exploration of his philosophy of education and pedagogy. ... -
With the Sharpened Axe of Reason: Approaches to Walter Benjamin by Gerhard Fischer 9781859730546
Booksplease Price: £41.78Walter Benjamin holds a unique fascination for students and scholars interested in the question of modernity. The most original thinker of Weimar Germany, Benjamin has become something of a cultural... -
The Revolution is the Emergency Break: Essays on Walter Benjamin Michael Löwy 9781032773810
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.39Winner of the 2020 European Walter Benjamin Prize, The Revolution is the Emergency Break is a rich discussion of Walter Benjamin's lesser-known writings by renowned social scientist Michael Loewy... -
Benjamin for Architects by Brian Elliott
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £31.52Walter Benjamin has become a decisive reference point for a whole range of critical disciplines, as he constructed a unique and provocative synthesis of aesthetics, politics and philosophy. Examining... -
Speaking of Evil: Rhetoric and the Responsibility to and for Language by Matthew Boedy
Booksplease Price: £85.65Rhetoric and the Responsibility to and for Language: Speaking of Evil relocates the "problem of evil"- the question of why God would allow for the existence of evil-and surveys it as a rhetorical... -
The Angel of History: Rosenzweig, Benjamin, Scholem by Stephane Moses
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24In The Angel of History, Moses looks at three Jewish philosophers-Franz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin, and Gershom Scholem-who formulated a new vision of history in 1920s Germany by moving away from... -
To the Collector Belong the Spoils: Modernism and the Art of Appropriation by Annie Pfeifer
RRP: £61.00Booksplease Price: £48.02To the Collector Belong the Spoils rethinks collecting as an artistic, revolutionary, and appropriative modernist practice, which flourishes beyond institutions like museums or archives. Through a... -
Urban Phantasmagorias: Domesticity, Production and the Politics of Modernity in Communist Bucharest by Iulia Stătică 9780367859152
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52Urban Phantasmagorias examines the legacies of socialist housing in the city of Bucharest during the period of communist rule in Romania. The book explores the manner in which the socialist state... -
The Madman's Guide to Stamp Collecting Robert Irwin 9781805337744
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43A fascinating, one-of-a-kind journey through the world of stamps and collecting by maverick historian and writer Robert IrwinWhy do we collect? Is it to rescue objects from oblivion? Is it a kind of... -
The Shock of the Same: An Anti-Philosophy of Cliches by Thomas Grimwood 9781786614001
Booksplease Price: £90.57Since the birth of modernity, Western thought has been at war with cliches. The association of philosophical and cultural integrity with originality, and the corresponding need for invention and... -
Body-and Image-Space: Re-Reading Walter Benjamin by Sigrid Weigel 9780415109567
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51The last decade has seen a new wave of interest in philosophical and theoretical circles in the writings of Walter Benjamin. In Body-and Image-Space Sigrid Weigel, one of Germany's leading feminist... -
Mikhail Bakhtin and Walter Benjamin: Experience and Form by Tim Beasley-Murray 9780230535350
Booksplease Price: £90.56This first comparative study of the philosophers and literary critics, Walter Benjamin and Mikhail Bakhtin, focuses on the two thinkers' conceptions of experience and form, investigating parallels... -
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Approaches to Walter Benjamin's "The Arcades Project" by Pawel Stachura 9783631736371
RRP: £58.45Booksplease Price: £52.34Walter Benjamin is one of the most important figures of modern culture. The authors focus within this book on Benjamin as a philosopher, or rather as a critic of modernism entangled in tradition... -
Mikhail Bakhtin and Walter Benjamin: Experience and Form by Tim Beasley-Murray 9781349358335
Booksplease Price: £90.56This first comparative study of the philosophers and literary critics, Walter Benjamin and Mikhail Bakhtin, focuses on the two thinkers' conceptions of experience and form, investigating parallels... -
Textual Conspiracies: Walter Benjamin, Idolatry, and Political Theory by James Martel 9780472035229
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £25.89"This is a sophisticated and fascinating argument written in a very enjoyably entertaining style. It is hard for me to see how readers initially interested in these texts will not be 'swept off their... -
Wild, Unforgettable Philosophy: In Early Works of Walter Benjamin by Monad Rrenban 9780739113639
Booksplease Price: £51.50Through reading the early work of Walter Benjamin - up to and including the Trauerspiel book, Monad Rrenban brings forth a cohesive conception of the wild, unforgettable form, philosophy, as inherent... -
The Acoustical Unconscious from Walter Benjamin to Alexander Kluge by Robert Ryder 9783110737776
Booksplease Price: £90.57Is there an acoustical equivalent to Walter Benjamin's idea of the optical unconscious? In the 1930s, Benjamin was interested in how visual media expand our optical perception: the invention of the... -
The One and Only Law: Walter Benjamin and the Second Commandment by James Martel 9780472052301
RRP: £36.95Booksplease Price: £34.90Walter Benjamin's "Critique of Violence," widely considered his final word on law, proposes that all manifestations of law are false stand-ins for divine principles of truth and justice that are no... -
The Wall and the Arcade: Walter Benjamins Metaphysics of Translation and its Affiliates by Shimon Sandbank
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £28.72True translation is transparent: it does not obscure the original, does not stand in its light, but rather allows pure language, as if strengthened by its own medium, to shine even more fully on the... -
Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's 'on the Concept of History' by Michael Lowy 9781784786410
Booksplease Price: £14.24Revolutionary critic of the philosophy of progress, nostalgic of the past yet dreaming of the future, romantic partisan of materialism - Walter Benjamin is in every sense of the word an... -
Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism by Walter Benjamin 9781804290453
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15Walter Benjamin, one of the foremost cultural commentators and theorists of this century, is perhaps best known for his analyses of the work of art in the modern age and the philosophy of history... -
Wild, Unforgettable Philosophy: In Early Works of Walter Benjamin by Monad Rrenban 9780739108451
Booksplease Price: £122.35Through reading the early work of Walter Benjamin - up to and including the Trauerspiel book, Monad Rrenban brings forth a cohesive conception of the wild, unforgettable form, philosophy, as inherent... -
Walter Benjamin and Cultural Translation: Examining a Controversial Legacy Birgit Haberpeuntner 9781350387218
Booksplease Price: £30.54Dissecting the radical impact of Walter Benjamin on contemporary cultural, postcolonial and translation theory, this book investigates the translation and reception of Benjamin's most famous text...