Book Description
This collection explores, in Adorno's description, `philosophy directed against philosophy'. The essays cover all aspects of Benjamin's writings, from his early work in the philosophy of art and language, through to the concept of history. The experience of time and the destruction of false continuity are identified as the key themes in Benjamin's understanding of history.
About the Author
Andrew Benjamin is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is the author of The Plural Event (1993), Art, Mimesis and the Avant-Garde (1991) and Translation and the Nature of Philosophy (1989); the editor of Judging Lyotard (1992), The Problems of Modernity (1991), and Post-Structuralist Classics; (1988), and the co-editor of Abjection, Melancholia and Love (1990), all published by Routledge. He is also the editor of the Warwick Studies in European Philosophy series. Peter Osborne is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Middlesex University. He is the editor of Socialism and the Limits of Liberalism (Verso, 1991) and co-editor of Socialism, Feminism and Philosophy (Routledge, 1990).
