Overview

Full Product Details

9781571139696

Table of Contents

Reviews

(A) valuable, very readable and often stimulating companion and a real asset to contemporary discussion in the field. MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW Taken as a whole, this collection offers us, rather than a Marxist Benjamin or a messianic Benjamin, what could be called a digital Benjamin. JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES The authors of the essays in this book do an excellent job of balancing their subjects. GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW This book will stand well among the many essay collections attesting to Benjamin's rich intellectual legacy and to the broad, intense appeal of his work across disciplines as varied, and interrelated, as cultural studies, literature, geography, gender studies, and media studies. CHOICE Goebel presents a wonderful collection of essays that deal with Benjamin's most fundamental concepts on language, rhetoric, translation, fragmentation, montage, messianism, politics, and phantasmagoria. Many of these interdisciplinary essays re-read his works against the background of current theoretical conceptualizations (media theory, gender studies, postcolonialism) ... (E)xcellent ... GERMAN QUARTERLY

[A] valuable, very readable and often stimulating companion and a real asset to contemporary discussion in the field. MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW Taken as a whole, this collection offers us, rather than a Marxist Benjamin or a messianic Benjamin, what could be called a digital Benjamin. JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES The authors of the essays in this book do an excellent job of balancing their subjects. GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW This book will stand well among the many essay collections attesting to Benjamin's rich intellectual legacy and to the broad, intense appeal of his work across disciplines as varied, and interrelated, as cultural studies, literature, geography, gender studies, and media studies. CHOICE Goebel presents a wonderful collection of essays that deal with Benjamin's most fundamental concepts on language, rhetoric, translation, fragmentation, montage, messianism, politics, and phantasmagoria. Many of these interdisciplinary essays re-read his works against the background of current theoretical conceptualizations (media theory, gender studies, postcolonialism) . . . . [E]xcellent . . . . GERMAN QUARTERLY

(A) valuable, very readable and often stimulating companion and a real asset to contemporary discussion in the field. MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW Taken as a whole, this collection offers us, rather than a Marxist Benjamin or a messianic Benjamin, what could be called a digital Benjamin. JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES The authors of the essays in this book do an excellent job of balancing their subjects. GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW This book will stand well among the many essay collections attesting to Benjamin's rich intellectual legacy and to the broad, intense appeal of his work across disciplines as varied, and interrelated, as cultural studies, literature, geography, gender studies, and media studies. CHOICE Goebel presents a wonderful collection of essays that deal with Benjamin's most fundamental concepts on language, rhetoric, translation, fragmentation, montage, messianism, politics, and phantasmagoria. Many of these interdisciplinary essays re-read his works against the background of current theoretical conceptualizations (media theory, gender studies, postcolonialism) . . . . (E)xcellent . . . . GERMAN QUARTERLY

Author Information

ROLF J. GOEBEL is Distinguished Professor of German, Emeritus, at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. KARL IVAN SOLIBAKKE is Associate Professor of German and Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences for Budget and Long-Range Planning at Syracuse University.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available