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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... -
The One and Only Law: Walter Benjamin and the Second Commandment by James R. Martel 9780472072309
Booksplease Price: £81.86Walter 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... -
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... -
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... -
Political Enthusiasm: Partisan Feeling and Democracy’s Enchantments Andrew Poe 9781526195685
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54Enthusiasm 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... -
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... -
Experience and Infinite Task: Knowledge, Language and Messianism in the Philosophy of Walter Benjamin by Tamara Tagliacozzo 9781786600424
Booksplease Price: £41.36This book examines the philosophical thought of the young Walter Benjamin and its development in his later work. Starting from his critique of the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and Hermann Cohen, the... -
The Interior Urbanism Theory Reader Gregory Marinic (University of Houston, USA) 9781138336315
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14The Interior Urbanism Theory Reader expands our understanding of urbanism, interiority, and publicness from a global perspective across time and cultures. From ancient origins to speculative futures,... -
What Hashish Did To Walter Benjamin: Mind-Altering Essays on Marijuana by Sebastian Marincolo 9783981771206
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783981771206Author Sebastian MarincoloFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Khargala PressPublisher... -
Walter Benjamin and the Critique of Political Economy: A New Historical Materialism by Duy Lap Nguyen 9781350331051
Booksplease Price: £31.52Exploring the connections between Walter Benjamin’s philosophy of history and a Marxian Critique of Political Economy, Duy Lap Nguyen analyses Benjamin’s early writings and their development into a... -
Experience and Infinite Task: Knowledge, Language and Messianism in the Philosophy of Walter Benjamin by Tamara Tagliacozzo 9781786600417
Booksplease Price: £81.47This book examines the philosophical thought of the young Walter Benjamin and its development in his later work. Starting from his critique of the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and Hermann Cohen, the... -
Collective Dreams: Political Imagination and Community by Keally D. McBride 9780271026893
Booksplease Price: £37.39How do we go about imagining different and better worlds for ourselves? Collective Dreams looks at ideals of community, frequently embraced as the basis for reform across the political spectrum, as... -
Philosophical Urbanism: Lineages in Mind-Environment Patterns by Abraham Akkerman 9783030290870
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book expands on the thought of Walter Benjamin by exploring the notion of modern mind, pointing to the mutual and ongoing feedback between mind and city-form. Since the Neolithic Age, volumes... -
Hope Without Optimism by Terry Eagleton 9780813937342
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £15.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813937342Author Terry EagletonFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint University of Virginia... -
Precarious Lease Jacqueline Feldman 9781804271407
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51On 31 December 2012, Le Bloc opened its doors. Situated at a far edge of Paris, near where the banlieue began, the legendary squat was eight stories tall and four basements deep. It took in artists... -
![Translation as a Form: A Centennial Commentary on Walter Benjamin's "The Task of the Translator" by Douglas Robinson](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/444185/443901/9781032161389__06454.1687160709.jpg?c=1 "Translation as a Form: A Centennial Commentary on Walter Benjamin's "The Task of the Translator" by Douglas Robinson")
Translation as a Form: A Centennial Commentary on Walter Benjamin's "The Task of the Translator" by Douglas Robinson
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52This is a book-length commentary on Walter Benjamin's 1923 essay "Die Aufgabe des UEbersetzers," best known in English under the title "The Task of the Translator." Benjamin's essay is at once an... -
Walter Benjamin, Religion and Aesthetics: Rethinking Religion through the Arts S. Brent Plate 9780415969925
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52Walter Benjamin, Religion, and Aesthetics is an innovative and creative attempt to unsettle and reconceive the key concepts of religious studies through a reading with, and against, Walter Benjamin... -
Walter Benjamin and the Critique of Political Economy: A New Historical Materialism by Duy Lap Nguyen 9781350180420
Booksplease Price: £95.79Exploring the connections between Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history and a Marxian Critique of Political Economy, Duy Lap Nguyen analyses Benjamin's early writings and their development into a... -
Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno by Miriam Hansen 9780520265592
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £56.56Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno - affiliated through friendship, professional ties, and argument - developed an astute philosophical critique of modernity in which... -
A Lover's Discourse by Xiaolu Guo
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802149534Author Xiaolu GuoFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly... -
The Art of Gesture: Classical and Renaissance Expressions Andrew Benjamin 9781399529631
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £85.43Andrew Benjamin approaches the relationship between philosophy and art history through the concept of gesture. Critically engaging with Walter Benjamin, Aby Warburg and Giorgio Agamben, by focusing... -
The Critical Introduction to Salomo Friedlaender-Mynona: Twentieth-Century Performance Philosopher Detlef Thiel 9781538146132
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £97.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538146132Author Detlef ThielFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Rowman & Littlefield... -
On Changing The World: Essays in Political Philosophy, from Karl Marx to Walter Benjamin by Michael Lowy 9781608461899
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38This collection of essays - including several translated to english for the first time - cover a wide range of topics and figures too often neglected by the dominant trends in Marxist literature... -
In the Language of Walter Benjamin Carol Jacobs (Birgit Baldwin Professor of Comparative Literature, Yale University) 9780801866692
RRP: £28.50Booksplease Price: £21.90If Walter Benjamin (with an irony that belies his seemingly tragic life) is now recognized as one of the century's most important writers, reading him is no easy matter. Benjamin opens one of his... -
Just Language: Walter Benjamin, German-Jewish Exile, and the Critique of Linguistic Violence Dennis Johannßen 9780472058006
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £26.76Just Language revisits the Weimar period and its representation in the postwar years to explore narratives of linguistic resistance in the works of Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, Hannah Arendt,... -
Just Language: Walter Benjamin, German-Jewish Exile, and the Critique of Linguistic Violence Dennis Johannßen 9780472078004
Booksplease Price: £81.25Just Language revisits the Weimar period and its representation in the postwar years to explore narratives of linguistic resistance in the works of Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, Hannah Arendt,... -
Crisis Cultures: Narratives of Western Modernity in the Digital Age Nicholas Manganas 9781666935219
Booksplease Price: £85.65In Crisis Cultures: Narratives of Western Modernity in the Digital Age, Nicholas Manganas argues that crisis should be understood not as a series of isolated events, but as a constitutive state... -
Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life by Theodor Adorno
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99Written between 1944 and 1947, Minima Moralia is a collection of rich, lucid aphorisms and essays about life in modern capitalist society. Adorno casts his penetrating eye across society in... -
Postcolonial Historical Materialism: The Heritage of Critical Theory Filippo Menozzi 9781350410138
Booksplease Price: £85.65Through a reappraisal of the work of four major figures in critical theory - Ernst Bloch, Georg Lukacs, Theodor Adorno, and Walter Benjamin - Filippo Menozzi rethinks the tradition of critical... -
The Afterlife of Texts in Translation: Understanding the Messianic in Literature by Edmund Chapman 9783030324513
Booksplease Price: £46.28The Afterlife of Texts in Translation: Understanding the Messianic in Literature reads Walter Benjamin's and Jacques Derrida's writings on translation as suggesting that texts exist within a process... -
Under Representation: The Racial Regime of Aesthetics by David Lloyd
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.44Under Representation shows how the founding texts of aesthetic philosophy ground the racial order of the modern world in our concepts of universality, freedom, and humanity. In taking on the relation... -
La Obra de Arte En La Época de Su Reproductibilidad Técnica by Consultant Statistician Walter Benjamin 9789508892874
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £22.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789508892874Author Consultant Statistician Walter BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint La... -
How to Measure a World?: A Philosophy of Judaism by Martin Shuster 9780253054548
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68What does it mean to wonder in awe or terror about the world? How do you philosophically understand Judaism? In How to Measure a World?: A Philosophy of Judaism, Martin Shuster provides answers to... -
Stroll, revised edition Shawn Micallef 9781552454800
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50THE TORONTO STAR'S "30 BOOKS WE CAN'T WAIT TO READ THIS SPRING"The updated edition of a Toronto favourite meanders around some of the city's unique neighborhoods and considers what makes a city... -
Critiquing Sovereign Violence: Law, Biopolitics and Bio-Juridicalism by Gavin Rae
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.04Gavin Rae offers an original approach to sovereign violence by looking at a wide range of thinkers, which he organises into three models. Benjamin, Schmitt, Arendt, Deleuze and Guattari form the... -
Jakob von Gunten by Robert Walser
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49The Institut Benjamenta: a school of humility for the unambitious. The young Jakob von Gunten arrives at this most curious of educational establishments with the goal of becoming 'something very... -
Exceptional Violence and the Crisis of Classic American Literature by Joseph Fichtelberg 9783031078446
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book is an interdisciplinary study of antebellum American literature and the problem of political emergency. Arguing that the United States endured sustained conflicts over the nature and...