title: Recent Writings by Walter Benjamin
author: Walter Benjamin
description: To claim the name of a dead cultural hero is a coy obstruction. In presenting an impossibility as fact, however, Walter Benjamin: Recent Writings makes clear that it plays by another set of rules, eliding the boundaries between historical fact and fiction. (Rachel Wetzler <i>LA Review of Books</i>)
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  WALTER BENJASMIN AND ART
  
   
  WALTER BENJAMIN STUDIES SERIES
  Series Editors: Andrew Benjamin, Monash University, and Beatrice
  Hanssen, University of Georgia.
  Consultant Board: Stanley Cavell, Sander Gilman, Miriam Hansen,
  Carol Jacobs, Martin Jay, Gertrud Koch, Peter Osborne, Sigrid Weigel and
  Anthony Phelan.
  A series devoted to the writings of Walter Benjamin - each volume will focus
  on a theme central to contemporary work on Benjamin. The series aims to
  set new standards for scholarship on Benjamin for students and researchers
  in Philosophy, Cultural Studies and Literary Studies.
  Walter Benjamin and Romanticism (2002), edited by Beatrice Hanssen and
  Andrew Benjamin.
  
   
  Walter Benjamin and Art
  Edited by Andrew Benjamin
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  ® Andrew Benjamin and Contributors 2005
  First published 2005
  Reprinted 2006
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