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The Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin » (1st Edition)

Authors: David S. Ferris
ISBN-13: 9780521797245, ISBN-10: 0521797241
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: January 2004
Edition: 1st Edition

This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the thought of the highly influential twentieth-century critic and theorist Walter Benjamin.

	List of contributors
	List of abbreviations and short titles
	Chronology
	Introduction : Reading Benjamin	1
1	Walter Benjamin and the European avant-garde	18
2	Art forms	35
3	Language and mimesis in Walter Benjamin's work	54
4	Walter Benjamin's concept of cultural history	73
5	Benjamin's Modernity	97
6	Benjamin and psychoanalysis	115
7	Benjamin and the ambiguitics of Romanticism	134
8	Body politics : Benjamin's dialectical materialism between Brecht and the Frankfurt School	152
9	Method and time : Benjamin's dialectical images	187
10	Benjamin's phantasmagoria : the Arcades Project	199
11	Acts of self-portraiture : Benjamin's confessional and literary writings	221
	Guide to further reading	238
	Index	242