Walter Benjamin
Subtitle: presence of mind, failure to comprehend
By: by Stéphane Symons
Series: Social and critical theory -- v. 14; Social and critical theory -- v. 14.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9789004235625; 9789004242296
Subjects: History; Philosophy; Philosophy and religion; Religion and literature; Modern Philosophy; Critical theory
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-163) and index.
Table of contents: title: Benjamin's philosophy of history : the Messianic is now; title: The Kafka-essays and The origin of German tragic drama : on failure and the limits of human understanding; title: The 'will to allegory' and the 'distortion' of truth in history.