... of the Early Romantics; Walter Benjamin’s journal projects, from the Angelus Novus to the prison camp journal at the end of his life; Maurice Blanchot and the failed trans-European project of what was arguably the most ambitious intellectual journal enterprise of the century, the Revue internationale...

... become the core of pedagogy, which tends increasingly to become a theory of self-education. However, pedagogues rarely question the notion of experience itself. Walter Benjamin has engaged with this question in various ways throughout his career. In his view, it is precisely the inadequacy of traditional...

...Matthew Charles T. J. Clark has described Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project as containing a politics that is “cryptic,” as if “being actively aired and developed elsewhere.” This essay seeks to uncover the buried foundations of such a politics in Benjamin’s early writings on pedagogy...

...Antonia Birnbaum What is studying in its difference from institutions? Benjamin took up the problem of studying with all the energy of his student dissatisfaction. In one of his early texts he investigates the “life of students” under the aspect of a historical concept in which history appears...

...Brian Elliott This essay argues that the key to Benjamin’s political thought lies in his appreciation of aesthetic production. Avoiding both uncritical celebration and fatalistic condemnation of the role played by modern technologies within production, Benjamin articulates a nuanced interpretation...

...Eli Friedlander This essay reflects on the questions introduced by Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings's biography Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life . In particular, it considers how the biography addresses the difficult problem of drawing together a unity of life and writings in Benjamin's existence...

...T. J. Clark T. J. Clark 2003 y 2 / 30:1 / sheet 35 of 224 6808 boundar Should Benjamin Have Read Marx? T. J. Clark First, apologies for my title...

...Peter Fenves Duke University Press 2003 y 2 / 30:1 / sheet 71 of 224 6808 boundar Of Philosophical Style—from Leibniz to Benjamin Peter Fenves...

...Claudia Brodsky Lacour Duke University Press 2003 y 2 / 30:1 / sheet 147 of 224 6808 boundar Architectural History: Benjamin and Hölderlin Claudia Brodsky Lacour...

...Kevin McLaughlin Duke University Press 2003 y 2 / 30:1 / sheet 195 of 224 6808 boundar Benjamin Now: Afterthoughts on The Arcades Project Kevin McLaughlin...

...Lindsay Waters Lindsay Waters 2003 y 2 / 30:1 / sheet 203 of 224 6808 boundar Come Softly, Darling, Hear What I Say: Listening in a State of Distraction—A Tribute to the Work of Walter Benjamin, Elvis Presley...

...Peter Fenves Abstract The essay begins by demonstrating that Benjamin drew his interpretation of Leibniz's metaphysics from a little‐known book by Herman Schmalenbach. In contrast to the typical view, according to which Leibniz is a proponent of the principle of continuity, Schmalenbach argues...

...Eli Friedlander The present essay sketches in broad outlines the philosophical armature of Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project by analyzing the central theoretical notion in that incomplete manuscript of his: the dialectical image. So as to bring out the uniqueness of Benjamin's use of image, I...

...James Martel In “Critique of Violence,” Benjamin writes that the “educative power, which in its perfected form stands outside the law, is one of [divine violence’s] manifestations.” To recognize the connection Benjamin makes between a messianic power and acts of pedagogy allows us to revisit...

...Eli Friedlander The task of the present commentary on “Critique of Violence” is to bring to light a progression in Walter Benjamin's essay that has important implications for the assessment of the essay's content. One should not take violence as a generic term and view the essay as enumerating...

...Eli Friedlander Duke University Press 2002 Discontinued Thinking: A Review of Walter Benjamin’s Selected Writings, Volumes 1–4 Eli Friedlander 1 The publication of Walter Benjamin’s selected...

...Samuel Weber Duke University Press 2003 y 2 / 30:1 / sheet 21 of 224 6808 boundar ‘‘Streets, Squares, Theaters A City on the Move— Walter Benjamin’s Paris...

...Michael Jennings Duke University Press 2003 y 2 / 30:1 / sheet 93 of 224 6808 boundar On the Banks of a New Lethe: Commodification and Experience in Benjamin’s Baudelaire Book...

...Tom Gunning Duke University Press 2003 y 2 / 30:1 / sheet 109 of 224 6808 boundar The Exterior as Intérieur : Benjamin’s Optical Detective...

...Henry Sussman Duke University Press 2003 y 2 / 30:1 / sheet 173 of 224 6808 boundar Between the Registers: The Allegory of Space in Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project...