The Benjamin Files Jameson Fredric
Jameson's first full-length engagement with Walter Benjamin's work.The Benjamin Files offers a comprehensive new reading of all of Benjamin's major works and a great number of his shorter book…
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Jameson's first full-length engagement with Walter Benjamin's work.The Benjamin Files offers a comprehensive new reading of all of Benjamin's major works and a great number of his shorter book reviews, notes and letters. Its premise is that Benjamin was an anti-philosophical, anti-systematic thinker whose conceptual interests also felt the gravitational pull of his vocation as a writer. What resulted was a coexistence or variety of language fields and thematic codes which overlapped and often seemed to contradict each other: a view which will allow us to clarify the much-debated tension in his works between the mystical or theological side of Benjamin and his political or historical inclination.The three-way tug of war over his heritage between adherents of his friends Scholem, Adorno and Brecht, can also be better grasped from this position, which gives the