Walter Benjamin Critical Constellations

"This is an excellent introduction to Benjamin s thought, written with great clarity and richly located within his biography. Gilloch s focus upon Benjamin s reconstruction of the afterlife of things enables him to reveal new interconnections and interpretive trajectories within Benjamin s themes and texts, whether they be his writings on language, literature, the city, the new media or the Arcades Project. A most welcome addition to Polity s series on contemporary thinkers." David Frisby, University of Glasgow

"A fine text to accompany a firsthand reading of Benjamin, such reading is necessary to understand the thinker critiqued here." Library Journal

"The book highlights some major motifs of Benjamin s work and will probably be of interest, above all, to students of media and related aspects of social history or theory" Brendan Moran, Philosophy in Review