Book Description
This collection explores Walter Benjamin's contributions to philosophy, and in particular, Benjamin's "philosophy directed against philosophy." The essays address several aspects of Benjamin's writings, from his early work on the philosophy of art and language, to his cultural criticism, up to his final reflections on the concept of history. Benjamin's understanding of history\Mas defined by his ideas on time and his belief in the destruction of false continuity\Mmakes an invaluable contribution to recent debates on postmodernist views of modernity.
Contributors: Andrew Benjamin, Rebecca Comay, Howard Caygill, Alexander Garcia Duttman, Rodolphe Gasche, Werner Hamacher, Gertrud Koch, John Kraniauskas, Peter Osborne, Irving Wohlfarth.
About the author
Andrew Benjamin is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is the author of The Plural Event (1993), Art, Mimesis and the Avant-Garde (1991) and Translation and the Nature of Philosophy (1989); the editor of Judging Lyotard (1992), The Problems of Modernity (1991), and Post-Structuralist Classics; (1988), and the co-editor of Abjection, Melancholia and Love (1990), all published by Routledge. He is also the editor of the Warwick Studies in European Philosophy series. Peter Osborne is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Middlesex University. He is the editor of Socialism and the Limits of Liberalism (Verso, 1991) and co-editor of Socialism, Feminism and Philosophy (Routledge, 1990).
