Walter Benjamin: Critical ConstellationsISBN: 978-0-7456-1008-5
Paperback
320 pages
February 2002, Polity
Other Available Formats: Hardcover
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"This is an excellent introduction to Benjamin's thought, written
with great clarity and richly located within his biography.
Gilloch's focus upon Benjamin's reconstruction of the 'afterlife'
of things enables him to reveal new interconnections and
interpretive trajectories within Benjamin's themes and texts,
whether they be his writings on language, literature, the city, the
new media or the Arcades Project. A most welcome addition to
Polity's series on contemporary thinkers." David Frisby,
University of Glasgow
"A fine text to accompany a firsthand reading of Benjamin, such
reading is necessary to understand the thinker critiqued here."
Library Journal
"The book highlights some major motifs of Benjamin's work and will probably be of interest, above all, to students of media and related aspects of social history or theory" Brendan Moran, Philosophy in Review