The Benjamin Files
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The Benjamin Files by Fredric Jameson
Jameson's first full-length engagement with Walter Benjamin's work
In The Benjamin Files, the high Jamesonian style is everywhere on display, with the slight difference that the prose in this book seems at once more forthright and more playful than in many of the older works-- Ian Balfour * Los Angeles Review of Books *
Jameson skilfully situates Benjamin within his immediate and wider contexts, and he is an attentive close reader, drawing out the tight, mutual links between form and content in Benjamin's thought. -- Carolin Duttlinger * Times Literary Supplement *
Marvelous -- David Carrier * Hyperallergic *
[Jameson] is probably the finest cultural critic in the world ... There seems to be almost nothing he hasn't read, apart perhaps from the odd manual on pig-farming, and the wealth of cultural knowledge packed into this latest offering is astonishing. -- Terry Eagleton * London Review of Books *
In making his case, Jameson places Benjamin squarely within the Marxist tradition, while simultaneously retaining all that is unique and complex about his thinking. -- Paul Stasi * Socialism & Democracy *
Jameson skilfully situates Benjamin within his immediate and wider contexts, and he is an attentive close reader, drawing out the tight, mutual links between form and content in Benjamin's thought. -- Carolin Duttlinger * Times Literary Supplement *
Marvelous -- David Carrier * Hyperallergic *
[Jameson] is probably the finest cultural critic in the world ... There seems to be almost nothing he hasn't read, apart perhaps from the odd manual on pig-farming, and the wealth of cultural knowledge packed into this latest offering is astonishing. -- Terry Eagleton * London Review of Books *
In making his case, Jameson places Benjamin squarely within the Marxist tradition, while simultaneously retaining all that is unique and complex about his thinking. -- Paul Stasi * Socialism & Democracy *
Fredric Jameson is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. The author of numerous books, he has over the last three decades developed a richly nuanced vision of Western culture's relation to political economy. He was a recipient of the 2008 Holberg International Memorial Prize. He is the author of many books, including Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, The Cultural Turn, A Singular Modernity, The Modernist Papers, Archaeologies of the Future, Brecht and Method, Ideologies of Theory, Valences of the Dialectic, The Hegel Variations and Representing Capital.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781784783983 |
| ISBN 10 | 1784783986 |
| Title | The Benjamin Files |
| Author | Fredric Jameson |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Year published | 2020-11-03 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
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