THE BENJAMIN FILES

The Benjamin Files offers a comprehensive new reading of all of Benjamin's major works and a great number of his shorter book review s, notes and letters. Its premise is that Benjamin was an anti-philosophical, anti-systematic thinker whose conceptual interests als o felt the gravitational pull of his vocation as a writer. What resulted was a coexistence or variety of language fields and themati c codes which overlapped and often seemed to contradict each other: a view which will allow us to clarify the much-debated tension i n his wo...[Read more]