Working with Walter Benjamin Recovering a Political Philosophy
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Andrew Benjamin is an Honorary Professor in the School of Communication and Cultural Studies in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. He has held posts in a number of UK and Australian universities. He started his career at the University of Warwick rising to the position of Professor of Philosophy and until 2022 taught for one semester each year at Kingston University in London where he was associated with the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy. He is the author of numerous books including Working with Walter Benjamin: Recovering a Political Philosophy (2013) and Of Jews and Animals (2011) both published by Edinburgh University Press.Working with Walter Benjamin Recovering a Political Philosophy
Andrew Benjamin has written a striking and original engagement with the core of Benjamin’s thinking that not only elucidates the central questions that animate Benjamin’s political philosophy but develops their full philosophical and critical consequence. This is a book that cuts new ground in Benjamin studies and does so with exemplary imagination and rigour. More than an interpretation, it lays out the possibility of what it means to think in a Benjaminian way today.
David Ferris, University of Colorado at Boulder
Andrew Benjamin gives us the first extended treatment of Walter Benjamin’s political philosophy taking as his point of departure a radical rethinking of life, law, and violence. Most importantly, insisting on the distinction between religion and theology, he argues for a new understanding of political-theology, one that radically challenges Carl Schmitt. A superb and long awaited book by arguably one of the world’s leading authorities on the thought of Walter Benjamin.
Peg Birmingham, DePaul University
Andrew Benjamin has written a striking and original engagement with the core of Benjamin’s thinking that not only elucidates the central questions that animate Benjamin’s political philosophy but develops their full philosophical and critical consequence. This is a book that cuts new ground in Benjamin studies and does so with exemplary imagination and rigour. More than an interpretation, it lays out the possibility of what it means to think in a Benjaminian way today.
David Ferris, University of Colorado at Boulder
Andrew Benjamin gives us the first extended treatment of Walter Benjamin’s political philosophy taking as his point of departure a radical rethinking of life, law, and violence. Most importantly, insisting on the distinction between religion and theology, he argues for a new understanding of political-theology, one that radically challenges Carl Schmitt. A superb and long awaited book by arguably one of the world’s leading authorities on the thought of Walter Benjamin.
Peg Birmingham, DePaul University