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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Samuel WeberPublisher: Harvard University Press Imprint: Harvard University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.40cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.70cm Weight: 0.476kg ISBN: 9780674046061ISBN 10: 0674046064 Pages: 376 Publication Date: 10 April 2010 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsIn this demanding book, Weber analyzes Benjaminian theory and its potential, presenting a close reading of Walter Benjamin at his most energetic and complex...Through Benjamin, Weber illuminates what happens between what is written and what is read and the true impossibility of defining any sort of straight line between those two points. Publishers Weekly 20080331 Weber's close readings are illuminating. -- David Gordon Library Journal 20080601 In Benjamin's -abilities, Samuel Weber takes an innovative approach to Walter Benjamin's work. In contrast to the burgeoning secondary literature on Benjamin devoted to broad themes (his messianism, his Marxism, etc.), Weber, who has achieved academic prominence with scholarship on the Frankfurt School, psychoanalysis, deconstruction and media culture, opens up a fertile avenue of interpretation by paying close attention to a stylistic idiosyncrasy running through Benjamin's oeuvre...[Weber] deftly navigates this labyrinth of interpretations, exhibiting a keen sense of Benjamin's singularly elusive style of thinking and writing. -- Ross Benjamin Times Literary Supplement 20081114 Not only the best read of 2008 but, with a shelf full of works on Walter Benjamin, the best book on him I've ever read. -- Rosalind Krauss Artforum 20081201 In this demanding book, Weber analyzes Benjaminian theory and its potential, presenting a close reading of Walter Benjamin at his most energetic and complex...Through Benjamin, Weber illuminates what happens between what is written and what is read and the true impossibility of defining any sort of straight line between those two points. Publishers Weekly 20080331 Weber's close readings are illuminating. -- David Gordon Library Journal 20080601 In Benjamin's -abilities, Samuel Weber takes an innovative approach to Walter Benjamin's work. In contrast to the burgeoning secondary literature on Benjamin devoted to broad themes (his messianism, his Marxism, etc.), Weber, who has achieved academic prominence with scholarship on the Frankfurt School, psychoanalysis, deconstruction and media culture, opens up a fertile avenue of interpretation by paying close attention to a stylistic idiosyncrasy running through Benjamin's oeuvre...[Weber] deftly navigates this labyrinth of interpretations, exhibiting a keen sense of Benjamin's singularly elusive style of thinking and writing. -- Ross Benjamin Times Literary Supplement 20081114 Not only the best read of 2008 but, with a shelf full of works on Walter Benjamin, the best book on him I've ever read. -- Rosalind Krauss Artforum 20081201 Author InformationSamuel Weber is Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities at Northwestern University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |