books on W. Benjamin

[Steffen Bohm]

hi

rather than reading a benjamin biography i would personally recommend to have a
look at this book:
Buck-Morss, Susan (1989) The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the
Arcades Project. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
even though it tries to 'complete' benjamin's arcades project, the main
strenght of the book is that it provides a monograph about how one could read
benjamin's work as a whole.

other books that might be of interest are:
Andrew Benjamin and Peter Osborne (eds.) (2000) Walter Benjamin^Òs Philosophy:
Destruction & Experience. Manchester: Clinamen Press.
Cohen, Margaret (1993) Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of
Surrealist Revolution. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Weigel, Sigrid (1996) Body-and Image-Space: Re-reading Walter Benjamin. London:
Routledge.
Nägele, Rainer (1991) Theater, Theory, Speculation: Walter Benjamin and the
Scenes of Modernity. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Leslie, Esther (2000) Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism. London: Pluto
Press.
Lindroos, Kia (1998) Now-Time, Images Space: Temporalization of Politics in
Walter Benjamin^Òs Philosophy of History and Art. SoPhi: University of
Jyväskylä.
Hanssen, Beatrice (1998) Walter Benjamin^Òs Other History: Of Stones, Animals,
Human Beings, and Angels. Berkeley, CA: California University Press.
Eagleton, Terry (1981) Walter Benjamin or Towards a Revolutionary Criticism.
London: New Left Books.

steffen



Michael Young wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm reasonably new to the list and was wondering if anyone has suggestions
> for a friend and I who are 'preparing' for a Benjamin reading project. Our
> plan is to spend some time reading widely in WB and were wanting to begin
> by reading a couple of books *on* him, to prepare the ground, as it were.
> We were thinking of Richard Wolin's "WB: an aesthetic of redemption" and
> Bernd Witte's "WB: an intellectual biography", for no other reasons than 1)
> they're referenced "around" and 2) I had both of them on my shelves. Any
> other suggestions?  Also, any web-based resources would be great, too.
>
> thanks
>
> mdy/.
>
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