The Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin (Hardcover)

List of contributors; List of abbreviations and short titles; Chronology; Introduction: reading Benjamin David S. Ferris; 1. Walter Benjamin and the European avant-garde Michael Jennings; 2. Art forms Jan Mieszkowski; 3. Language and mimesis in Walter Benjamin's work Beatrice Hanssen; 4. Walter Benjamin's concept of cultural history Howard Caygill; 5. Benjamin's modernity Andrew Benjamin; 6. Benjamin and psychoanalysis Sarah Ley Roff; 7. Benjamin and the ambiguities of Romanticism Rebecca Comay; 8. Body politics: Benjamin's dialectical materialism between Brecht and the Frankfurt School Rainer Nagele; 9. Method and time: Benjamin's dialectical images Max Pensky; 10. Benjamin's phantasmagoria: the Arcades Project Margaret Cohen; 11. Acts of self-portraiture: Benjamin's confessional and literary writings Gerhard Richter; Guide to further reading; Index.