Walter Benjamin and History

Andrew Benjamin is Professor of Critical Theory at Monash University.

Introduction; 1. Messianic Epistemology: Thesis XV - Robert Gibbs; 2. Between Melancholia and Fetishism: Benjamin's Losses - Rebecca Comay; 3. Trembling Contours: Kierkegaard - Benjamin - Brecht - Rainer Nagele; 4. Down the K Hole: Walter Benjamin's Destructive Landsurveying of History - Stephanie Polsky; 5. Benjamin and the History of Religion - Howard Caygill; 6. The Shortness of History: On the Thesis - David Ferris; 7. What is the Matter of Architecture History? - Gevoork Hartoonian; 8. Tradition as an Event: Benjamin and the Critics of Historicism - Philippe Simay; 9. Boredom and Distraction: The Moods of Modernity - Andrew Benjamin; 10. 'Now': Walter Benjamin and Historical Time - Wener Hamacher; 11. The Supposition of the Aura: The Now, the Then and Modernity - Georges Didi-Huberman; 12. Benjamin's History of the Interior - Charles Rice.