The book uses the new Harvard University Press translation of Benjamin's essays, fragments and his Arcades Project, with substantial reference to previously untranslated material The book places Benjamin's work in its German-Jewish historical, philosophical and theological contexts, but does this gradually starting with the historical-based chapters first, providing the necessary groundwork for readers new to Benjamin, and then moving on to more theoretical concepts The book provides unique readings of aesthetics and literary experimentalism via Benjamin and the works of British artist Rachel Whiteread and author B.S. Johnson The book provides a new reading of The Arcades Project, a text which has been increasingly studied by a wide range of theorists, arts-practitioners, and literary critics since its translation into English in 1999 Allows entry for the non-specialist into complex areas of critical theory, as well as providing original readings of Benjamin and twentieth-century arts and literature for the more advanced scholar
- ISBN10 0719064368
- ISBN13 9780719064364
- Publish Date 16 June 2005
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 July 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Manchester University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English