| Editor | Michael P. Steinberg |
| Series | Cornell Paperbacks |
| Publisher | Cornell University Press |
| Copyright Holder | Cornell University |
| Contributor | Michael P. Steinberg, Jacques Rancière, Heinz-Dieter Kittsteiner, Harry D. Harootunian, Curtis M. Hinsley, Françoise Meltzer, Max Pensky, Irving Wohlfarth, Michael Löwy, Ackbar Abbas |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Location | Ithaca, New York; London, United Kingdom |
| Copyright | 1996 |
| Pages / Font | 252 pages |
| Barcode | 9 780801 482571 90000 |
| Barcode | 978080148257190000 |
| ISBN | 978-0-8014-8257-1 |
| Chapters | 1. Introduction: Benjamin and the Critique of Allegorical Reason - Michael P. Steinberg
2. The Archaeomodern Turn - Jacques Rancière
3. The Allegory of the Philosophy of History in the Nineteenth Century - Heinz-Dieter Kittsteiner
4. The Benjamin Effect: Modernism, Repetition, and the Path to Different Cultural Imaginaries - Harry D. Harootunian
5. The Collector as Allegorist: Goods, Gods, and the Objects of History - Michael P. Steinberg
6. Strolling through the Colonies - Curtis M. Hinsley
7. Acedia and Melancholia - Françoise Meltzer
8. Tactics of Remembrance: Proust, Surrealism, and the Origin of the "Passagenwerk" - Max Pensky
9. Smashing the Kaleidoscope: Walter Benjamin's Critique of Cultural History - Irving Wohlfarth
10. "Against the Grain": The Dialectical Conception of Culture in Walter Benjamin's Theses of 1940 - Michael Löwy
11. Hyphenation: The Spatial Dimensions of Hong Kong Culture - Ackbar Abbas
Contributors
Index 1. Introduction: Benjamin and the Critique of Allegorical Reason - Michael P. Steinberg
2. The Archaeomodern Turn - Jacques Rancière
3. The Allegory of the Philosophy of History in the Nineteenth Century - Heinz-Dieter Kittsteiner
4. The Benjamin Effect: Modernism, Repetition, and the Path to Different Cultural Imaginaries - Harry D. Harootunian
5. The Collector as Allegorist: Goods, Gods, and the Objects of History - Michael P. Steinberg
6. Strolling through the Colonies - Curtis M. Hinsley
7. Acedia and Melancholia - Françoise Meltzer
8. Tactics of Remembrance: Proust, Surrealism, and the Origin of the "Passagenwerk" - Max Pensky
9. Smashing the Kaleidoscope: Walter Benjamin's Critique of Cultural History - Irving Wohlfarth
10. "Against the Grain": The Dialectical Conception of Culture in Walter Benjamin's Theses of 1940 - Michael Löwy
11. Hyphenation: The Spatial Dimensions of Hong Kong Culture - Ackbar Abbas
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| Notes | Printed in the United States of America. |