Dystopias may once have functioned to raise an emancipatory alarm about the present;
today they all too readily confirm the'worst case scenarios' of the policy planners, using the …

Page 1 GRAEME GILLOCH MYTH & METROPOLIS WALTER BENJAMIN AND THE CITY
Page 2 MYTH AND METROPOLIS Walter Benjamin and the City Graeme Gilloch Polity Press …

Everyday Life and Cultural Theory provides a unique critical and historical introduction to
theories of everyday life. Ben Highmore traces the development of conceptions of everyday …

This book analyzes the development of Walter Benjamin's concept of experience in his early
writings showing that it emerges from an engagement with visual experience, and in …

IN The Critique of Pure Reason, Kant argued that our grasp of the world is inescapably
structured through space and time. In other words, whether we like it or not, our experience …

Textures of Light draws on the work of Luce Irigaray, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Emmanuel
Levinas to present an outstanding and ground breaking study of the vital importance of light …

We would like to take this opportunity to thank numerous friends and colleagues. We have
gained immeasurably from working with students of German and Hispanic studies and of …

Esther Leslie's path-breaking study of Walter Benjamin is unlike any other book presently
available in English on Benjamin, in seeking to make a case for a more politicised reading of …

From Romanticism to Critical Theory explores the philosophical origins of literary theory via
the tradition of German philosophy that began with the Romantic reaction to Kant. It traces …

Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem are regarded as two of the most influential Jewish
thinkers of the twentieth century. Together they produced a dynamic body of ideas that has …