Description: Collected essays consider points of affinity and friction between Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger.
Brief description: Andrew Benjamin is Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Thought at Monash University, Australia and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Kingston University, London. He is the author of Towards a Relational Ontology: Philosophy's Other Possibility and the coeditor (with Dimitris Vardoulakis) of Sparks Will Fly: Benjamin and Heidegger, both also published by SUNY Press.
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"...makes a valuable contribution to both Heideggerian and Benjaminian scholarship by bringing to light important connections and points of conflict." - CHOICE