A Companion to the Works of Walter Benjamin

Professor of German at University of Alabama, Huntsville

An advanced introduction to Benjamin's work and its actualization for our own times.

Benjamin's Criticism of Language and Literature - Wolfgang BockThe Presence of the Baroque: Benjamin's Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels in Contemporary Contexts - Dominik FinkeldeLost Orders of the Day: Benjamin's Einbahnstraße - Wolfgang BockLiterature as the Medium of Collective Memory: Reading Benjamin's Einbahnstraße, "Der Erzähler," and "Das Paris des Second Empire bei Baudelaire" - Bernd WitteBenjamin in the Age of New Media - Lutz KoepnickOne Little Rule: On Benjamin, Autobiography, and Never Using the Word "I" - Eric JarosinskiThe Passagen-Werk Revisited: The Dialectics of Fragmentation and Reconfiguration in Urban Modernity - Karl Ivan SolibakkeBenjamin's Politics of Remembrance: A Reading of the Theses Contained in "Über den Begriff der Geschichte" - Marc de WildeThe Legacy of Benjamin's Messianism: Giorgio Agamben and other Contenders - Vivian LiskaParis on the Amazon?: Postcolonial Interrogations of Benjamin's European Modernism - Willi BolleBenjamin's Gender, Sex, and Eros - Dianne ChisholmSonic Dreamworlds: Benjamin, Adorno, and the Phantasmagoria of the Opera House - Adrian Daub