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Contents
AESTHETICS and PHILOSOPHY
Henry Sussman — Booking Benjamin: The Fate of a Medium
Winfried Menninghaus — On the ‘vital significance’ of Kitsch. Walter Benjamin’s Politics of ‘bad taste’
Michael Mack — Modernity as an unfinished Project: Benjamin and Political Romanticism
Robert Sinnerbrink — Violence, Destruction and Sovereignty: Derrida and Agamben on Benjamin’s ‘Critique of Violence’
Joel Morris — Graves, Pits and Murderous Plots: Walter Benjamin, Alois Riegl and the German Mourning Play’s Dreary Tone of Intrigue
George Markus — Benjamin’s Critique of Aesthetic Autonomy
Andrew Benjamin — Justice and Theology
CITIES and IMAGES
Peter Schmiedgen — Interiority, Exteriority and Spatial Politics in Benjamin’s Cityscapes
Jo Law — Time without End: exploring the temporal; experience of Wong Kar-Wai’s 2046 through Walter Benjamin
Alex Regier — Architecture of the Pavement: Street Maps and the Linguistic Cosmos
Carlo Salzani — Experience and Play: Walter Benjamin and the Prelapapsarian Chile
Tara Forest — ‘Strange Construct’: Benjamin on History and Film
Authors, editors and contributors
Andrew Benjamin is Professor of Critical theory and Philosophical Aesthetics at Monash University, Australia. His most recent book is Style and Time, Essays on the Politics of Appearance (2006).
Tara Forrest is a Lecture in Cultural Studies at the University of Technology Sydney. She has published widely on German critical theory and film. Her most recent book The Politics of Imagination: Benjamin, Kracauer, Kluge (2007).
Jo Law is a writer and film make. She teaches multimedia technology at the Curtain University of Technology, Australia.
Michael Mack is a Research Fellow in the Department of German at the University of Reading. His most recent book is German Idealism and Anti-Semitism (2004).
George Markus is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. He has published widely on Philosophy of Culture, History of Aesthetics, Modernity, European Philosophy, and Dialectics.
Winfried Menninghaus is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the Free University Berlin. He has published extensively on German literature and particularly on Walter Benjamin. His most recent book is Hälfte des Lebens. Versuch über Hölderlins Poetik (2007).
Joel Morris is completing a PhD in German ant Northwestern University.
Alex Regier is a Junior Research Fellow at Kings College Cambridge. He has published on German literature and philosophy.
Charles Rice is a Senior Lecture in Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney. He recently published The Emergence of the Interior. Architecture, Modernity, Domesticity (2007).
Carlos Salzani is a Research Assistant in Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Monash University Australia.
Peter Schmiedgen teaches philosophy and cultural studies at Macquarie University. He has published on Levinas and Benjamin.
Robert Sinnerbrink is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Macquarie University. His most recent publications include Understanding Hegelianism (2007) and Critique Today (edited with Jean-Philippe Deranty, Nicholas Smith, and Peter Schmiedgen) (2006).
Henry Sussman is Julian Park Professor of Comparative Literature in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Buffalo. His publications include, The Aesthetic Contract: Statutes of Art and Intellectual Work in Modernity (1997) and Psyche and Text: The Sublime and the Grandiose in Literature, Psychopathology, and Culture (1993).
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