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Provides a broad and dedicated analysis of this canonical work and its effect upon core contemporary concerns in the visual arts, and the history of philosophy.

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<p> This volume of thirteen essays presents reevaluations of Walter Benjamin's short but influential essay, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.. .. Benjamin's influence remains strong, particularly within the disciplines of philosophy, history, aesthetics, and cultural theory. The strength of this book is that it gives a sense of the direction of current Benjamin scholarship from within those disciplines, expressed in terms that5 are accessible to the general academic reader. - Frances Robertson, Technology and Culture, July 2006, Vol. 47

This volume of thirteen essays presents reevaluations of Walter Benjamin's short but influential essay, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.. .. Benjamin's influence remains strong, particularly within the disciplines of philosophy, history, aesthetics, and cultural theory. The strength of this book is that it gives a sense of the direction of current Benjamin scholarship from within those disciplines, expressed in terms that5 are accessible to the general academic reader. - Frances Robertson, Technology and Culture, July 2006, Vol. 47

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Andrew Benjamin is Professor of Critical Theory and Philosophical Aesthetics at Monash University, Australia. His previous publications include: Writing Art and Architecture(Re: press, 2010) Of Jews and Animals (Edinburgh University Press, 2010), Style and Time: Essays on the Politics of Appearance (Northwestern UP, 2006), Disclosing Spaces: On Painting (Clinamen Press, 2004), Philosophy's Literature (Clinamen Press, 2001) and Present Hope: Philosophy, Aesthetics, Judaism (Routledge, 1997). He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2005.

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