Walter Benjamin: Critical Constellations

Acknowledgements viii

Abbreviations x

Introduction: Benjamin as a Key Contemporary Thinker 1

1 Immanent Criticism and Exemplary Critique 27

2 Allegory and Melancholy 57

3 From Cityscape to Dreamworld 88

4 Paris and the Arcades 113

5 Culture and Critique in Crisis 140

6 Benjamin On-Air, Benjamin on Aura 163

7 Love at Last Sight 198

Conclusion: Towards a Contemporary Constellation 234

Notes 249

Bibliography 289

Index 298