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Designed as a comparative study of Simmel's and Benjamin's conceptions of art... these comparative observations provide the necessary background for the appreciation of the close-reading chapters, which are the most praiseworthy and revelatory parts of the book. It is the Simmel chapters that are supplied with the most creative passages of the study, called 'codas, ' in which Symons... offers his own such interpretations, basing them on Simmel's aesthetics. In this way, a few famous works of Michelangelo, Rembrandt, and Rodin receive a Simmel-like explication by the author who has an intimate knowledge of his philosophical subject and a deep understanding of art. --H-SHERA Boldly conceived and masterfully executed, More Than Life stages an imaginary dialogue between two of the twentieth century's most brilliant cultural critics, Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, whose work overlapped in certain respects but diverged in many others. In so doing, Symons not only illuminates previously ignored or misunderstood dimensions of their legacies but also demonstrates the abiding value of their trenchant analyses of artists from Michelangelo, Rembrandt, and Rodin to Charlie Chaplin. --Martin Jay, author of Reason after Its Eclipse: On Late Critical Theory More Than Life makes a valuable contribution to the fields of Simmel and Benjamin studies, more specifically, and to the intellectual and philosophical history of German thought, more broadly. No other study situates these two thinkers side by side as, first and foremost, aestheticians. This felicitous juxtaposition yields remarkable insight into these theorists' revolutionary approaches to art, as well as into the various artworks (ranging from sculpture and painting to film and literature) that occasion their readings. --Samuel Frederick, author of Narratives Unsettled: Digression in Robert Walser, Thomas Bernhard, and Adalbert Stifter

More Than Life makes a valuable contribution to the fields of Simmel and Benjamin studies, more specifically, and to the intellectual and philosophical history of German thought, more broadly. No other study situates these two thinkers side by side as, first and foremost, aestheticians. This felicitous juxtaposition yields remarkable insight into these theorists' revolutionary approaches to art, as well as into the various artworks (ranging from sculpture and painting to film and literature) that occasion their readings. --Samuel Frederick, author of Narratives Unsettled: Digression in Robert Walser, Thomas Bernhard, and Adalbert Stifter More than Life makes a valuable contribution to the fields of Simmel and Benjamin studies, more specifically, and to the intellectual and philosophical history of German thought, more broadly. No other study situates these two thinkers side by side as, first and foremost, aestheticians. This felicitous juxtaposition yields remarkable insight into these theorists' revolutionary approaches to art, as well as into the various artworks (ranging from sculpture and painting to film and literature) that occasion their readings. --Samuel Frederick, author of Narratives Unsettled: Digression in Robert Walser, Thomas Bernhard, and Adalbert Stifter

More Than Life makes a valuable contribution to the fields of Simmel and Benjamin studies, more specifically, and to the intellectual and philosophical history of German thought, more broadly. No other study situates these two thinkers side by side as, first and foremost, aestheticians. This felicitous juxtaposition yields remarkable insight into these theorists' revolutionary approaches to art, as well as into the various artworks (ranging from sculpture and painting to film and literature) that occasion their readings. --Samuel Frederick, author of Narratives Unsettled: Digression in Robert Walser, Thomas Bernhard, and Adalbert Stifter

More Than Life makes a valuable contribution to the fields of Simmel and Benjamin studies, more specifically, and to the intellectual and philosophical history of German thought, more broadly. No other study situates these two thinkers side by side as, first and foremost, aestheticians. This felicitous juxtaposition yields remarkable insight into these theorists' revolutionary approaches to art, as well as into the various artworks (ranging from sculpture and painting to film and literature) that occasion their readings. --Samuel Frederick, author of Narratives Unsettled: Digression in Robert Walser, Thomas Bernhard, and Adalbert Stifter More than Life makes a valuable contribution to the fields of Simmel and Benjamin studies, more specifically, and to the intellectual and philosophical history of German thought, more broadly. No other study situates these two thinkers side by side as, first and foremost, aestheticians. This felicitous juxtaposition yields remarkable insight into these theorists' revolutionary approaches to art, as well as into the various artworks (ranging from sculpture and painting to film and literature) that occasion their readings. --Samuel Frederick, author of Narratives Unsettled: Digression in Robert Walser, Thomas Bernhard, and Adalbert Stifter -More than Life makes a valuable contribution to the fields of Simmel and Benjamin studies, more specifically, and to the intellectual and philosophical history of German thought, more broadly. No other study situates these two thinkers side by side as, first and foremost, aestheticians. This felicitous juxtaposition yields remarkable insight into these theorists' revolutionary approaches to art, as well as into the various artworks (ranging from sculpture and painting to film and literature) that occasion their readings.- --Samuel Frederick, author of Narratives Unsettled: Digression in Robert Walser, Thomas Bernhard, and Adalbert Stifter

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STÉPHANE SYMONS is an associate professor at the Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven, in Leuven, Belgium.

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