{"product_id":"walter-benjamin-theoretical-questions-paperback-softback-9780804725705","title":"Walter Benjamin; Theoretical Questions (Paperback \/ softback) 9780804725705","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWalter Benjamin\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTheoretical Questions\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid S. Ferris (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780804725705\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 July 1996\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e260 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.34 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"An excellent collection of essays on a thinker who continues to be a provocation and source of insight for a wide variety of intellectuals, teachers, and students interested in literature, philosophy, sociology, history, the visual arts, and the media.\"—Ian Balfour, York University\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection of nine essays focuses on those writings of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) on literature and language that have a direct relevance to contemporary literary theory, notably his analyses of myth, violence, history, criticism, literature, and mass media.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn an introductory essay, David S. Ferris discusses the problem of history, aura, and resistance in Benjamin's later work and in its reception. Samuel Weber, in a reading of Benjamin's most influential essay, \"The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,\" analyzes the status of the image and technology in Benjamin's own terms and in the shadow of Heidegger. Rodolphe Gasché devotes himself to an analysis of Benjamin's dissertation on the German Romantics, providing a valuable guide to a major text that has yet to appear in English translation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52739566141720,"sku":"9780804725705","price":21.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/walter-benjamin-theoretical-questions-paperback-softback-9780804725705","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}