This first volume shows that even as a young man Walter Benjamin possessed astonishing intellectual range and depth. His topics here include poetry and fiction, drama, philosophy, history, religion, love…

This book marks a missed encounter between two of the most influential Marxists thinkers of our age, Walter Benjamin, and Antonio Gramsci, studied here for the first-time side by side…

This book reconstructs and compares the social theories of modernity of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, two classic thinkers in German social thought. The author focuses on five main topics…

Benjamin’s writings are a curious mixture of esoteric, sometimes mystical Jewish thought, artistic modernism, and unorthodox Marxism. This title proceeds from the standpoint that Benjamin’s thought was shaped by his…

Gerhard Richter examines, in the work of Walter Benjamin, one of the central problems of modernity: the question of how to receive an intellectual inheritance.

Covering aspects of Benjamin’s complex…

This collection of essays concentrates on the work of Walter Benjamin. Topics covered include: the question of historical understanding versus historicism; Benjamin and the sources of Judaism; feminism and cultural…

Benjamin’s relationship to theological matters has been less observed than it should. Walter Benjamin and Theology brings together some of the world’s most renowned experts to reassess the stake theology…

In this paper we will address Walter Benjamin's philosophical use of allegory, its peculiarity and relevance. We argue that it is through allegorical images that it is possible to think…