German-Jewish intellectuals, the alienated hommes de lettres of early twentieth century German-speaking Central Europe, constituted a class within that complex and multi-layered Jewish society against ...
The appearance of this volume marks the completion of a grand project, bringing a fully representative set of texts by German critic Benjamin (1892–1940) into English; volume 4 joins the first three ...
Benjamin's 1937 article on the Marxist scholar and art collector Eduard Fuchs (1870–1940), hailed as 'pioneer of a materialist consideration of art'. Of the three big volumes on the history of erotic ...
Ferris, David. "'Truth is the Death of Intention': Benjamin's Esoteric Concept of Romanticism." Studies in Romanticism 31, (Winter, 1992). Gasche, Rodolphe. "The Sober Absolute: On Benjamin and the ...
The Journal of Religious and Intellectual History was founded in 1948 by Hans-Joachim Schoeps and Ernst Benz as an interdisciplinary scientific journal. Thematically, the journal is open to scientific ...
MLN pioneered the introduction of contemporary continental criticism into American scholarship. Critical studies in the modern languages (Italian, Hispanic, German, French) and recent work in ...
Walter Benjamin was a German philosopher (1892-1940) whose most famous work from 1936 was called The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. You can read here.In his famous work, he ...
I found German writer Walter Benjamin through my middle-school history teacher. He was my first adult crush, barely 21 and a graduate student with long hair pulled back in a ponytail and wire-rim ...