The actuality of Walter Benjamin
By: edited by Laura Marcus and Lynda Nead.
Contributors: Nead, Lynda.; Marcus, Laura.
Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart
Published: 1998
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Most of the papers were initially "delivered at the centenary conference, Walter Benjamin 1892-1940, which was held at Birkbeck College, London on 16th-18th July 1992"--P. 12.
Table of contents: title: Editorial / Laura Marcus and Lynda Nead; title: The measure of the possible, the weight of the real and the heat of the moment : Benjamin's actuality today / Iring Wohlfarth; title: From gender images to dialectical images in Benjamin's writings / Sigrid Weigel; title: The city in pieces / Victor Burgin; title: Walter Benjamin, the intellectual / Zygmunt Bauman; title: Walter Benjamin : out of the sources of modern Judaism / Gillian Rose; title: A communicative disclosure of the past : on the relation between anthropology and philosophy of history in Walter Benjamin / Axel Honneth; title: Shoah, remembrance and the abeyance of fate : Walter Benjamin's 'fate and character' / Andrew Benjamin; title: Memoirs and micrologies : Walter Benjamin's artwork essay reconsidered / Janet Wolff; title: History, the baroque and the judgement of the angels / Iain Chambers; title: Experience without a subject : Walter Benjamin and the novel / Martin Jay; title: The aesthetics of conflict / Julian Roberts.