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Books on: "Walter Benjamin"

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Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Power

Book by Lutz Koepnick; University of Nebraska Press, 1999

Subjects:

Aesthetics, Modern--20th Century, Benjamin, Walter--1892-1940--Aesthetics, Benjamin, Walter--1892-1940--Political And Social Views, Fascism And Art, Mass Society, National Socialism And Art, Popular Culture

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

WALTER BENJAMIN AND THE AESTHETICS OF POWER Modcrn...Scherpe Freie Unirersitkt, Berlin WALTER BENJAMIN AND THE AESTHETICS OF POWER LUTZ...Cataloging-in-Publicadon Data. Koepnick, Lutz, 1963- Walter Benjamin and the aesthedcs of power / Lutz...
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Walter Benjamin: The Colour of Experience

Book by Howard Caygill; Routledge, 1998

Subjects:

Benjamin, Walter--1892-1940--Contributions In Philosophy Of Experience, Experience--History

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

Caygill argues that all of Benjamin's work is characterised by its focus on a concept of experience derived from Kant but applied by Benjamin to objects as diverse as urban experience, visual art, literature and philosophy.
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Body - and Image - Space: Re-Reading Walter Benjamin

Book by Georgina Paul, Rachel McNicholl, Jeremy Gaines, Sigrid Weigel; Routledge, 1996

Subjects:

Benjamin, Walter--1892-1940

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

The last decade has seen a new wave of interest in philosophical and theoretical circles in the writings of Walter Benjamin. In Body-and Image-Space Sigrid Weigel, one of Germany's leading feminist theorists and a renowned commentator on the work of Walter Benjamin, argues that the reception of ...
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The last decade has seen a new wave of interest in philosophical and theoretical circles in the writings of Walter Benjamin. In Body-and Image-Space Sigrid Weigel, one of Germany's leading feminist theorists and a renowned commentator on the work of Walter Benjamin, argues that the reception of his work has so far overlooked a crucial aspect of his thought - his use of images. Weigel shows that it is precisely his practice of thinking in images that holds the key to understanding the full complexity, richness and topicality of Benjamin's theory.
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Ideology and Art: Theories of Mass Culture from Walter Benjamin to Umberto Eco

Book by Robin Ridless; Peter Lang, 1984

Subjects:

Aesthetics--Political Aspects, Frankfurt School Of Sociology, Ideology, Mass Media And The Arts, Popular Culture--Evaluation, Structuralism

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...Theories of Mass Culture from Walter Benjamin to Umberto Eco PETER LANG...theories of mass culture from Walter Benjamin to Umberto Eco / Robin Ridless...Chapter I. WALTER BENJAMIN: THE CHANGING OF THE SUPERSTRUCTURE...
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Walter Benjamin and the Antinomies of Tradition

Book by John McCole; Cornell University Press, 1993

Subjects:

Benjamin, Walter--1892-1940--Criticism And Interpretation, Europe--Intellectual Life--20th Century, Modernism (Aesthetics), Tradition (Philosophy)

Collections: Philosophy, Literature, Entire Library

Walter Benjamin and the Antinomies of Tradition WALTER BENJAMIN AND THE ANTINOMIES OF TRADITION JOHN MCCOLE Cornell...the German edition of Benjamins letters, Briefe . Walter Benjamin and the Antinomies of Tradition These days the revolutionary...

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Journal Articles on: "Walter Benjamin"

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Jennings, Michael W. the Writer of Modern Life. Essays on Charles Baudelaite, by Walter Benjamin

Journal article by Ann Smock; Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Vol. 36, 2007

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaite, by Walter Benjamin (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Writer of Modern Life. Essays on Charles Baudelaite, by Walter Benjamin. by Ann Smock Jennings, Michael W. The Writer of Modern Life. Essays on Charles Baudelaite, by Walter Benjamin. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press, 2006. Pp. 320...
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Remembering Walter Benjamin: Benjamin and His Biographers

Journal article by Udi E. Greenberg; Biography, Vol. 30, 2007

Subjects:

Benjamin, Walter--Criticism and interpretation, Benjamin, Walter--Works, Biographies--Criticism and interpretation, Biography--Criticism and interpretation, Literary critics--Criticism and interpretation, Literary critics--Works, Philosophers--Criticism and interpretation, Philosophers--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Remembering Walter Benjamin: Benjamin and His Biographers...In recent times, the memory of Walter Benjamin has extended far beyond his historical...2) In this flood of popularity, "Walter Benjamin" has become a symbolic code, serving...
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The Multiple Identities of Walter Benjamin

Journal article by Esther Leslie; New Left Review, Vol. a, 1997

Subjects:

Right And Left (Political Science), Socialism

Collections: Entire Library

...The Multiple Identities of Walter Benjamin In the August issue of...Traverso, just such a figure is Walter Benjamin, writing his theses on the philosophy...Momme Brodersens biography of Walter Benjamin recounts how the cover, font...
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History Is Photography: The Afterimage of Walter Benjamin

Journal article by Jeannene M. Przyblyski; Afterimage, Vol. 26, 1998

Subjects:

Benjamin, Walter--Bibliography, Photography--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...photography: the afterimage of Walter Benjamin. by Jeannene M. Przyblyski...novel about the last days of Walter Benjamin, Benjamins Crossing, the critic...the section entitled "What Did Walter Benjamin See? Image Cultures, 1890-1933...
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Reading Comes to Grief: Style and the Philosophy of History in Martin Heidegger and Walter Benjamin

Journal article by Marcus Paul Bullock; Germanic Review, Vol. 65, 1990

Subjects:

Germanic Philology

Collections: Philosophy, History, Literature, Entire Library

...History in Martin Heidegger and Walter Benjamin MARCUS PAUL BULLOCK Since...lart pour lart." Then, as Walter Benjamin points out in his essay Theorien...say very much the same for Walter Benjamin on the Left. In Benjamins vision...

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Magazine Articles on: "Walter Benjamin"

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The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin

Magazine article by Jr. Paul Mattick; The Nation, Vol. 259, October 31, 1994

Subjects:

Book reviews, Books--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin. by Jr. Paul Mattick...on September 26, 1940--that Walter Benjamin committed suicide, at the age...contexts (Julian Robertss helpful Walter Benjamin of 1983 is out of print). One...
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Walter Benjamin, the Flaneur, and the Confetti of History

Magazine article by Robert Fulford; Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 113, Winter 2006

Subjects:

Benjamin, Walter--Criticism and interpretation, Benjamin, Walter--Works, Literary critics--Criticism and interpretation, Literary critics--Works

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

Walter Benjamin, the Flaneur, and the Confetti of History. by Robert Fulford Among those who love cities, who could fail to admire Walter Benjamin, that protean philosopher of urbanism, that poet of the sidewalk? In...
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Walter Benjamin and Marxism

Magazine article by Michael Lowy; Monthly Review, Vol. 46, February 1995

Subjects:

Benjamin, Walter--Influence, Marxian school of sociology--Personalities, Marxism--Works, Marxist sociology--Personalities, Philosophy, Marxist--Works

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

Walter Benjamin and Marxism. by Michael Lowy Walter Benjamin, born in a bourgeois Berlin Jewish family...inevitablist vulgar Marxism. --The Editors Walter Benjamin occupies a unique place in the history...
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Uta Barth

Magazine article by Margaret Sundell; Artforum International, Vol. 38, January 2000

Subjects:

Barth, Uta--Exhibitions, Photography--Exhibitions

Collections: Entire Library

UTA BARTH. by Margaret Sundell BONAKDAR JANCOU GALLERY Walter Benjamin described aura--that intangible quality that distinguishes an object from its photographic reproduction--as the effect of a things...
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The Stories He Could Tell: Rhonda Lieberman on Todd Solondz

Magazine article; Artforum International, Vol. 40, February 2002

Subjects:

Filmmakers--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Solondz, Todd--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Entire Library

The Stories he could tell: Rhonda Lieberman on Todd Solondz WALTER BENJAMIN SAID its the winners whose histories are told, but Todd Solondzs latest film proves its the losers. In two parts ("Fiction" and...

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Newspaper Articles on: "Walter Benjamin"

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Composer's New Take on Opera; Go: Classical

Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), June 24, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...opera is unusual in both its subject matter and format. It is based on the life of German writer and philosopher Walter Benjamin and it includes a major part for a pianist and narrator, a role taken in next months concert by the British performer...
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McMurtry's Name Golden at Oscars; Writings Long Associated with Leading Films, Stars

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 24, 2006

Subjects:

Brokeback Mountain (Motion picture), McMurtry, Larry

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...found in a trio of essays and memoirs: "In a Narrow Grave," published in 1968; "Film Flam," published in 1987; and "Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen," published in 1999. In an article called "The Fun of It All," Mr. McMurtry recalled, "When Hollywood...
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Hardwicke and 'Nativity's' Teen; Director Intrigued by Mary's Role; 'Boot Camp' Got Cast in Character

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 1, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Montreal assigned to defend a skinhead accused of a racially motivated murder. Documentaries include "Who Killed Walter Benjamin?" which explores the mysterious death of the critic and theorist; "Who Was Kafka?" a look at the Czech writer; and...
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A Painter's Worst Enemy; Saving Grace: Richard Hamilton's TheCitizen (1??)1-), an Icon of Political Protest That Brought Home to an English Audience the Horrors of Long Kesh Prison. the Prisoners, Protesting That They Were Political, Had No Clothes and No Lavatory Facilities for as Long as Five Years Wretched and Banal: Liu Xiaodong's Transsexual Getting Down Stairs

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), November 23, 2007

Subjects:

Painters (Artists)--Demonstrations and protests, Painters--Demonstrations and protests, Prisoners--Demonstrations and protests

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...aestheticiansthat few of us have read and fewer still have understoodlook out for Barthes, Foucault, Adorno, Agamben, Mayakovsky, Walter Benjamin,Clement Greenberg and many more who provide the primordial soup ofjustificatory precedent. It is, indeed, not uncommon...
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Finding Stories in Stones

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 19, 2004

Subjects:

Schliemann, Heinrich

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Country") and Susan Stewart ("On Longing"), for example; and the critics Gaston Bachelard ("The Poetics of Space") and Walter Benjamin, as the author acknowledges, paved the way for her inquiry. (In psychology too, not only the towering figure of Sigmund...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: "Walter Benjamin"

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Benjamin, Walter

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...his Moscow Diary (1986); The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910 1940 (1966, tr. 1994) edited by Manfred R. and Evelyn M. Jacobson; Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship (1981) by G. Scholem...
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Frankfurt School

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Max Horkheimer took over as director in 1930, the focus widened. Leading members, such as Theodor Adorno , Walter Benjamin , and Herbert Marcuse , influenced by aspects of psychoanalysis and existentialism, developed a version of Marxism...

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