Andrew E. Benjamin

Walter Benjamin and the architecture of modernity

Benjamin provides new and important readings of key canonical texts in the history of philosophy in his sustained philosophical reworking of ontology. Amongst texts included are Hegel's Difference Essay and the Shorter Logic and Heidegger's Time and Being and The Question of Being. The effective presence of ontology, defined as `an original difference', will be familiar to readers of his earlier writings. This book represents his most thorough and original contribution to contemporary philosophy to date.

Descartes, Hegel, Heidegger

The Plural Event

Peter Osborne

Andrew Benjamin

This collection explores, in Adorno's description, Benjamin's 'philosophy directed against philosophy .' The essays cover all aspects of his writings, from his early work in the philosophy of art and language, through to his concept of history.This collection explores, in Adorno's description, 'philosophy directed against philosophy'. The essays cover all aspects of Benjamin's writings, from his early work in the philosophy of art and language, through to the concept of history. The experience of time and the destruction of false continuity are identified as the key themes in Benjamin's understanding of history.

Destruction and Experience

Walter Benjamin's Philosophy

Architecture, Space, Painting

Philippe Simay

Les enjeux urbains de la pensée de Walter Benjamin se situent dans un entre-deux-villes où s'est joué le sort d'une modernité contradictoire : Paris, capitale du XIXe siècle. A la question : " Comment habiter le moderne ? ", Benjamin répond par une étonnante philosophie de l'architecture, où se mêlent exils et souvenirs d'enfance, flânerie et pratiques révolutionnaires, transparence et opacité, cinéma et expertise sociale. C'est à cet inventaire que ce volume veut contribuer, constituant la ville comme " centre de gravité " de la pensée benjaminienne, vers lequel convergent ses autres architectures linguistiques, esthétiques ou politiques.

Walter Benjamin et la ville

Capitales de la modernité

Michael Govan

Madeline Gins

Shūsaku Arakawa

Guggenheim Museum Soho

Over the last three decades, the artists Arakawa (b 1936) and Madeline Gins (b 1941) have created a body of work which includes The Mechanism of Meaning, a cycle of 83 mixed-media paintings begun in 1963 and completed, for the most part, by 1973. The piece covers a variety of issues, including the nature of perception, how human beings function as persons, and the essential oneness of body and mind.

Reversible Destiny : Arakawa/Gins

Showcases ten years of projects by the theoretician and architect Peter Eisenman, including such structures as the Aronoff Center for Design and Art, the Nunotani Office Building and the Columbus Convention Center.

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