Critical Inquiry.Volume25.Number2

On the cover: Walter Benjamin's borrower's card
for the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, 1940.
Reproduced from Hans Puttnies and Gary Smith,
Benjaminiania (Giessen, 1991), p. 213.

Winter 1999
(Volume 25, Number 2)

Angelus Novus: Perspectives on Walter Benjamin

Table of Contents

  1. Winfried Menninghaus: Introduction

  2. Shoshana Felman: Benjamin's Silence

  3. Stanley Cavell: Benjamin Signalling

  4. Horst Bredekamp: Hobbes, Carl Schmitt, and Walter Benjamin

  5. Fredric Jameson: Benjamin's Sociological Predecessor

  6. Rosalind E. Krauss: Benjamin the Medium

  7. Miriam Bratu Hansen: Benjamin and Cinema: Not a One-Way Street

  8. Geoffrey Hartman: Benjamin in Hope

  9. Gershom Scholem: Jonah and the Concept of Justice

Critical Responses
  1. I. Robyn Wiegman: What Ails Feminist Criticism? A Second Opinion

  2. II. Susan Gubar: Notations in Medias Res