Perception and experience in modernity
By: edited by Helga Geyer-Ryan.
Contributors: Geyer-Ryan, Helga.
Series: Benjamin studien = Benjamin studies -- 1; Benjamin studies -- 1.
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
Subjects: Benjamin, Walter, -- 1892-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: "...keynote lectures of the first Congress of the International Walter Benjamin Association, which took place in Amsterdam, July 1997"--P. 9.

Includes bibliographical references.

Text in German and English.
Table of contents: value: Perception and experience in modernity / Helga Geyer-Ryan; value: To speak of Walter Benjamin / George Steiner; value: Between a human life and a word / Samuel Weber; value: Lost in translation / Sigrid Weigel; value: Walter Benjamin and the idea of a technological Eros / Irving Wohlfarth; value: A talk with Mona Jean Benjamin, Kim Yvon Benjamin and Michael Benjamin / Martin Jay, Gary Smith; value: Zeit und Glück / Burkhardt Lindner; value: "Jetzt" / Werner Hamacher; value: Walter Benjamin, remembrance and the First World War / Martin Jay; value: Revolutionary time / Susan Buck-Morss.