Lexington Books
Pages: 436
Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-0-7391-0845-1 • Hardback • December 2004 • $149.00 • (£115.00)
978-0-7391-1363-9 • Paperback • November 2005 • $60.99 • (£47.00)
Subjects: Art / Criticism & Theory,
Literary Criticism / General,
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,
Literary Criticism / European / General,
Literary Criticism / European / German,
Literary Criticism / Jewish,
Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory,
Literary Criticism / Poetry,
Philosophy / General,
Philosophy / Aesthetics,
Philosophy / Metaphysics,
Philosophy / Political,
Philosophy / Religious,
Philosophy / Criticism,
Philosophy / Movements / General
Chapter 1 Philosophy/Language
Chapter 2 Paradisal Play
Chapter 3 "Feminine"
Chapter 4 Round-Dance of Stray Feeling
Chapter 5 For Secret Not Doom: Human's Proper Name
Chapter 6 In God's Name
Chapter 7 Form of Infinite Giving Up
Chapter 8 Harmony of Some Old Words
Chapter 9 History and the Drama of Philosophy
Chapter 10 Doctrinal Form and its Esoteric Need
Chapter 11 Presentation and its Doctrinal Tone
Chapter 12 Prosaic Beauty
Chapter 13 Ru(i)ned
Chapter 14 Tremor-Identity: Genius of Time, Gift of Chaos
Chapter 15 Sobriety of Wild Reason
Chapter 16 Immanence
Chapter 17 Justice
Chapter 18 from another planet
Chapter 19 Honest Rhythm
Chapter 20 Philosophical Race of Ridiculed Exception
Chapter 21 Natural Ethics: Loyalty to Things
Chapter 22 In Name of Inorganic Community: Ethical Body
Chapter 23 Bequest: Unforgettable, Wild Solitude
Chapter 24 Death of Art and Philosophy
Chapter 25 Ir(r)enstraße
This study of Walter Benjamin is a truly extraordinary piece of scholarship. It is extraordinary in a number of respects: in the depth if its insight, the range of its coverage, the acuteness of its judgments, the thoroughness of its research, the dramatic intensity of its presentation....The results of his meticulous exposition are illuminating for Benjamin's work as a whole....In fact, I think it can be safely said that this is, by far, the best extended study of Walter Benjamin yet written in English.
— Rainer Nägele, Johns Hopkins University