Walter Benjamin: An Aesthetic of Redemption Volume 7

by Richard Wolin

Book Overview

Few twentieth-century thinkers have proven as influential as Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish philosopher and cultural and literary critic. Richard Wolin's book remains among the clearest and most insightful introductions to Benjamin's writings, offering a philosophically rich exposition of his complex relationship to Adorno, Brecht, Jewish Messianism, and Western Marxism. Wolin provides nuanced interpretations of Benjamin's widely studied writings...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520084004
• ISBN13: 9780520084001
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"