Walter Benjamin: An Aesthetic of Redemption Volume 7

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 on Baudelaire, historiography, and art in the age of mechanical reproduction. In a new Introduction written especially for this edition, Wolin discusses the unfinished Arcades Project, as well as recent tendencies in the reception of Benjamin's work and the relevance of his ideas to contemporary debates about modernity and postmodernity.

Author: Richard Wolin
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 03/11/1994
Pages: 316
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 8.93h x 5.95w x 0.92d
ISBN13: 9780520084001
ISBN10: 0520084004
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | European | German
- Biography & Autobiography | Philosophers
- Philosophy | Political

About the Author
Richard Wolin is Distinguished Professor of History and Political Science at the CUNY Graduate Center. His books include The Politics of Being: The Political Thought of Martin Heidegger (1990) and The Terms of Cultural Criticism: The Frankfurt School, Existentialism, Poststructuralism (1992).