Author : Peter Osborne
Release : 2005
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 356/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Walter Benjamin: Modernity by : Peter Osborne
Download or read book Walter Benjamin: Modernity written by Peter Osborne. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No other single author has so commanding a critical presence across so many disciplines within the arts and humanities, in so many national contexts, as Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). The belated reception of his work as a literary critic (dating from the late 1950s) has been followed by a rapid series of critical receptions in different contexts: Frankfurt Critical Theory and Marxism, Judaism, Film Theory, Post-structuralism, Philosophical Romanticism, and Cultural Studies.This collection brings together a selection of the most critically important items in the literature, across the full range of Benjamin's cultural-theoretical interests, from all periods of the reception of his writings, but focusing upon the most recent, to produce a comprehensive overview of the best critical literature.