Critical Inquiry, Winter 1999, Volume 25, Numer 2, Angelus Novus: Perspectives on Walter Benjamin

[PHILOSOPHY]. Ed. W. J. T. Mitchell. Contributors: Stanley Cavell, Fredric Jameson, Gershom Scholem, Shoshana Felman, Winfried Menninghaus, Horst Bredekamp, Rosalind E. Krauss, et al. "Critical Inquiry, Winter 1999, Volume 25, Numer 2, Angelus Novus: Perspectives on Walter Benjamin." Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Printed in the USA, 1998. First edition. English language. Softcover with laminated pictorial card wrappers. Edited nonfiction academic philosophy journal with eleven articles from various author, an introduction, letters to the editor, books of interest, black-and-white illustrations, and ads at rear. 8vo. 8 3/4 x 6 inches. 12 oz. [2], 199-405, [31]. Lamination on wrappers rippling. Shelf-wear, use. Light ink marginalia. Light tidelines on first leaves. Dog-earring. Toning. Good Plus. ISSN: 0093-1896. No ISBN. ASIN: B004R0FSME. OCLC: 406941926. "The publication of the first volume of the three-volume Harvard edition represents a landmark in the American reception of Walter Benjamin's works. Given the high percentage of major essays and other material hitherto untranslated, this long-overdue edition is very likely to alter the American reception of Benjamin. Even though devoted Benjamin scholars in this country have always looked beyond the limited range of works available in translation, the 'American' Benjamin consisted first and foremost of the famous late texts on aura and technical reproduction, on film and photography. By contrast, even the most outstanding achievements of the earlier Benjamin, namely, his groundbreaking dissertation 'The Concept of Criticism in German Romanticism' and the essay 'Goethe's Elective Affinities,' were until now virtually nonexistent for American readers without an excellent command of German or unequipped to embark on an ambitious detour through Italian, French, or Spanish translations.".…