Working with Walter Benjamin: Recovering a Political Philosophy

by Andrew Benjamin

Book Overview

This book provides a highly original approach to the writings of the twentieth-century German philosopher Walter Benjamin by one of his most distinguished readers. It develops the idea of 'working with' Benjamin, seeking both to read his corpus and to put it to work - to show how a reading of Benjamin can open up issues that may not themselves be immediately at stake in his texts. The defining elements in Benjamin's writings that Andrew Benjamin isolates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748648984
• ISBN13: 9780748648986
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"