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Modernism Between Benjamin and Goethe is an exhilarating assembling of voices. At its core is Goethe speaking across a century to Benjamin. Poles apart, such tensity leads to attraction, expressed in multiple affinities; divided by time, while untimeliness transfers energy to the analysis. Matthew Charles symphonizes beautifully this convocation of the Romantic, the Classical and the Modern. * Esther Leslie, Professor of Political Aesthetics, Birkbeck, University of London, UK * In this well-informed and wide-ranging investigation, Matthew Charles presents a complex Goethean perspective for the reading of Walter Benjamin and for modernist studies generally. His is a Goethe who has passed through the afterlives of Romanticism, making possible a post-romantic classicism positioned beyond the classical antinomies. * Howard Eiland, Lecturer in Literature, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA *

Modernism Between Benjamin and Goethe is an exhilarating assembling of voices. At its core is Goethe speaking across a century to Benjamin. Poles apart, such tensity leads to attraction, expressed in multiple affinities; divided by time, while untimeliness transfers energy to the analysis. Matthew Charles symphonizes beautifully this convocation of the Romantic, the Classical and the Modern. * Esther Leslie, Professor of Political Aesthetics, Birkbeck, University of London, UK *

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Matthew Charles is a senior lecturer in cultural and critical theory at the University of Westminster, UK. He is the co-author of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Walter Benjamin and several articles and chapters on critical theory and education.

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