ABSTRACT

This collection explores, in Adorno's description, `philosophy directed against philosophy'. The essays cover all aspects of Benjamin's writings, from his early work in the philosophy of art and language, through to the concept of history. The experience of time and the destruction of false continuity are identified as the key themes in Benjamin's understanding of history.

chapter |27 pages

Tradition And Destruction

Walter Benjamin's Politics of Language

chapter |51 pages

Small-Scale Victories, Large-Scale Defeats

Walter Benjamin's Politics Of Time

chapter |29 pages

Afformative, Strike

Benjamin's ‘Critique Of Violence'

chapter |16 pages

Beware Mexican Ruins!

‘One-Way Street' And The Colonial Unconscious

chapter |28 pages

No-Man'S-Land

On Walter Benjamin's ‘Destructive Character'

chapter |22 pages

Objective Diversions

On Some Kantian Themes In Benjamin's ‘The Work Of Art In The Age Of Mechanical Reproduction'

chapter |11 pages

Cosmos In Film

On The Concept of Space in Walter Benjamin's ‘Work Of Art' Essay

chapter |35 pages

Time And Task

Benjamin And Heidegger Showing The Present