The Cambridge companion to Walter Benjamin
By: edited by David S. Ferris.
Contributors: Ferris, David S., 1954-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Benjamin, Walter, -- 1892-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-241) and index.
Table of contents: title: Walter Benjamin and the European avant-garde / Michael Jennings; title: Art forms / Jan Mieszkowski; title: Language and mimesis in Walter Benjamin's work / Beatrice Hanssen; title: Walter Benjamin's concept of cultural history / Howard Caygill; title: Benjamin's modernity / Andrew Benjamin; title: Benjamin and psychoanalysis / Sarah Ley Roff; title: Benjamin and the ambiguities of Romanticism / Rebecca Comay; title: Body politics: Benjamin's dialectical materialism between Brecht and the Frankfurt School / Rainer Nagele; title: Method and time: Benjamin;s dialectical images / Max Pensky; title: Benjamin's phantasmagoria: the Arcades Project / Margaret Cohen; title: Acts of self-portraiture: Benjamin's confessional and literary writings / Gerhard Richter.