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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... -
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... -
John Fletcher's Rome by 9781526157386
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £75.20John Fletcher's Rome is the first book to explore John Fletcher's engagement with classical antiquity. Like Shakespeare and Jonson, Fletcher wrote, alone or in collaboration, a number of Roman plays:... -
The Madman's Guide to Stamp Collecting Robert Irwin 9781805337768
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A 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... -
Walter Benjamin’s First Philosophy: Experience, Ephemerality and Truth by Nathan Ross 9780367616991
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37This book provides a study of Walter Benjamin’s first philosophy in two senses: it focuses on his early philosophy as a source of insight into his later works, and it explores his thinking about the... -
The Acoustical Unconscious: From Walter Benjamin to Alexander Kluge by Robert Ryder 9783111356877
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £13.32Is 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... -
Walter Benjamin and Cultural Translation: Examining a Controversial Legacy by Birgit Haberpeuntner 9781350387188
Booksplease Price: £102.21Dissecting 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... -
Caesura and Jetztpunkt: Verse Essays after Walter Benjamin by Christopher Norris 9781643175102
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643175102Author Christopher NorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Parlor PressPublisher... -
Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings by Consultant Statistician Walter Benjamin 9781328470225
Booksplease Price: £15.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328470225Author Consultant Statistician Walter BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint... -
The Age of Translation: A Commentary on Walter Benjamin's 'The Task of the Translator' Antoine Berman 9781138886315
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99The Age of Translation is the first English translation of Antoine Berman's commentary on Walter Benjamin's seminal essay 'The Task of the Translator'. Chantal Wright's translation includes an... -
The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem, 1932-1940 by Anson Rabinbach 9780674174153
Booksplease Price: £33.84The legendary correspondence between the critic Walter Benjamin and the historian Gershom Scholem bears indispensable witness to the inner lives of two remarkable and enigmatic personalities... -
Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud Between Theory and Politics by Alex Betancourt 9783836438544
RRP: £56.44Booksplease Price: £50.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783836438544Author Alex BetancourtFormat PaperbackImprint VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publisher VDM... -
Foreplay: Hannah Arendt, the Two Adornos and Walter Benjamin by Carl Djerassi 9780299283346
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno were intellectual giants of the first half of the twentieth century. The drama Foreplay explores their deeply human and psychologically... -
Excavating Memory: Bilge Karasu's Istanbul and Walter Benjamin's Berlin by Ülker Gökberk 9781644694428
RRP: £77.99Booksplease Price: £75.20This study moves the acclaimed Turkish fiction writer Bilge Karasu (1930–1995) into a new critical arena by examining his poetics of memory, as laid out in his narratives on Istanbul's Beyoğlu, once... -
Critical Theory and Feeling: The Affective Politics of the Early Frankfurt School Simon Mussell 9781526155948
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54This book offers a unique and timely reading of the early Frankfurt School in response to the recent 'affective turn' within the arts and humanities. Resisting the overly rationalist tendencies of... -
Didi-Huberman and the Image by Chari Larsson 9781526167101
Booksplease Price: £23.54Philosopher and art historian Georges Didi-Huberman is one of the most innovative and influential critical thinkers writing today. This book is the first English-language study of his writing on... -
The Small Worlds of Childhood: Philosophy, Poetics, and the Queer Temporalities of Early Life Lauren Shizuko Stone 9781531510503
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £80.52The Small Worlds of Childhood argues that prose representations of bourgeois childhood contain surprising opportunities to reflect on the temporality of experience. In their narratives of children at... -
Catastrophic Historicism: Reading Julia de Burgos Dangerously by Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús 9781531505639
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £77.00Catastrophic Historicism unsettles the historicist constitution of Julia de Burgos (1914-53), Puerto Rico's most iconic writer-a critical task that necessitates redefining the concept of historicism... -
The Small Worlds of Childhood: Philosophy, Poetics, and the Queer Temporalities of Early Life Lauren Shizuko Stone 9781531510510
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48The Small Worlds of Childhood argues that prose representations of bourgeois childhood contain surprising opportunities to reflect on the temporality of experience. In their narratives of children at... -
Walter Benjamin Reimagined: A Graphic Translation of Poetry, Prose, Aphorisms, and Dreams by Frances Cannon
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £15.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262039963Author Frances CannonFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press... -
Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno by Miriam Hansen
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno - affiliated through friendship, professional ties, and argument - developed an astute philosophical critique of modernity in which... -
Constellation: Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin in the Now-Time of History by James McFarland 9780823245369
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.70Constellation is the first extended exploration of the relationship between Walter Benjamin, the Weimar-era revolutionary cultural critic, and the radical philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The... -
An Analysis of Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Rachele Dini 9781912284757
Booksplease Price: £6.68The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction combats traditional art criticism's treatment of artworks as fixed, unchanging mystical objects. For Walter Benjamin, the consequences of... -
City and Modernity in Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin: Fragments of Metropolis by Vincenzo Mele 9783031181863
Booksplease Price: £102.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783031181863Author Vincenzo MeleFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Palgrave MacMillanPublisher... -
City and Modernity in Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin: Fragments of Metropolis by Vincenzo Mele 9783031181832
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £102.20This book reconstructs and compares the social theories of modernity of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, two classic thinkers in German social thought. The author focuses on five main topics: the... -
Metaphysics of the Profane: The Political Theology of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem by Eric Jacobson 9780231126564
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £97.85Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem are regarded as two of the most influential Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. Together they produced a dynamic body of ideas that has had a lasting impact... -
Text as Dance: Walter Benjamin, Louis Marin and Choreographies of the Baroque Mark Franko 9781350236929
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £26.09A groundbreaking investigation into issues of gender, power and representation of sovereignty in French Baroque dance repertoires -- in particular, court ballet -- and in today’s performances of them. -
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £17.59Walter Benjamin's famous "Work of Art" essay sets out his boldest thoughts-on media and on culture in general-in their most realized form, while retaining an edge that gets under the skin of everyone... -
More Than Life: Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin on Art by Stephane Symons 9780810135772
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04More Than Life: Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin on Art is the first book to trace the philosophical relation between Georg Simmel and his one-time student Walter Benjamin, two of the most... -
Walter Benjamin's Antifascist Education: From Riddles to Radio by Tyson E. Lewis 9781438477510
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £69.61A comprehensive study of education in the writings of Walter Benjamin.Walter Benjamin's Antifascist Education is the first comprehensive analysis of educational themes across the entirety of the... -
Weird John Brown: Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics by Ted A. Smith
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Conventional wisdom holds that attempts to combine religion and politics will produce unlimited violence. Concepts such as jihad, crusade, and sacrifice need to be rooted out, the story goes, for the... -
A Companion to the Works of Walter Benjamin Professor emeritus Rolf J. Goebel (Customer) 9781571139696
Booksplease Price: £27.60Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) has emerged as one of the leading cultural critics of the twentieth century. His work encompasses aesthetics, metaphysical language and narrative theories, German literary... -
Walter Benjamin's Antifascist Education: From Riddles to Radio by Tyson E. Lewis 9781438477527
Booksplease Price: £26.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438477527Author Tyson E. LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint State University of New York... -
Political Enthusiasm: Partisan Feeling and Democracy's Enchantments by Andrew Poe 9781526156914
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £75.20Enthusiasm has long been perceived as a fundamental danger to democratic politics, with many regarding it as a source of instability and irrationalism. Such views can make enthusiasm appear as a... -
Law and the Utopian Imagination by Austin Sarat 9780804790819
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £58.10Law and the Utopian Imagination seeks to explore and resuscitate the notion of utopianism within current legal discourse. The idea of utopia has fascinated the imaginations of important thinkers for... -
Magical Nominalism: The Historical Event, Aesthetic Reenchantment, and the Photograph Martin Jay 9780226837215
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £31.83A bold and wide-ranging study across centuries, examining the conflict between "conventional" and "magical" nominalism in philosophy, history, aesthetics, political theory, and photography. In this... -
The Politics of Imagination: Benjamin, Kracauer, Kluge by Tara Forrest
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £19.85This book explores Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer and Alexander Kluge's analyses of the role that a rejuvenation in the capacity for imagination can play in encouraging us to reconceive the... -
![Behind the Angel of History: The "Angelus Novus" and Its Interleaf by Annie Bourneuf](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/548233/547949/9780226816708__89295.1687302769.jpg?c=1 "Behind the Angel of History: The "Angelus Novus" and Its Interleaf by Annie Bourneuf")
Behind the Angel of History: The "Angelus Novus" and Its Interleaf by Annie Bourneuf
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £28.81The story of artist R. H. Quaytman's discovery of an engraving hidden behind a famous artwork by Paul Klee. This book begins with artist R. H. Quaytman uncovering something startling about a... -
Committing the Future to Memory: History, Experience, Trauma by Sarah Clift 9780823254217
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.99Whereas historical determinacy conceives the past as a complex and unstable network of causalities, this book asks how history can be related to a more radical future. To pose that question, it does... -
Climate Change, Interrupted: Representation and the Remaking of Time by Barbara Leckie 9781503633070
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.64In this moment of climate precarity, Victorian studies scholar Barbara Leckie considers the climate crisis as a problem of time. Spanning the long nineteenth century through our current moment, her...