The Optic of Walter Benjamin by Alex Coles

The Optic of Walter Benjamin

Alex Coles

227 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

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The reception of Walter Benjamin's work has vindicated his own insight into the ways in which the optic of the present continually transforms the past. With particular focus on the city, glass architecture and themes of historiography, collecting,...

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