"Hanssen's exacting, expansive study of the ways Benjamin
reconceives history and nature in one another's presence, or
distance, is part of the increasing recognition of what it must
take intellectually and imaginatively to come to terms with this
thinker's soaring innovations."--Stanley Cavell, Harvard University
"In this profoundly learned book Hanssen interprets Benjamin's
"The Origin of German Tragic Drama as the key to understanding his
entire corpus. . . . Many books about Benjamin are impenetrable.
This one is not." --S. Gittleman, "Choice
"Beatrice Hanssen has provided an arresting new reading of
Benjamin, based on a wide range of materials and a subtle
understanding of theoretical issues, both in his time and our own.
Her interpretation is informed by contemporary deconstructionist
approaches to the fundamental questions raised by Benjamin's texts,
which she demonstrates anticipate many of the concerns of Derrida,
Levinas and other recent thinkers."--Martin Jay, University of
California, Berkeley
"Beatrice Hanssen elaborates Benjamin's extremely novel and
complex notion of 'history' with unparalleled thoroughness,
cogency, and clarity."--Samuel Weber, University of California, Los
Angeles
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