{"product_id":"bridging-benjamin-volume-68","title":"Bridging Benjamin Volume 68","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWalter Benjamin reimagined through the forgotten power of radio\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilosopher and cultural critic Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) has long been recognized for his influence on the fields of literature, film, media studies, critical legal theory, and philosophy. Bringing fresh attention to an often-overlooked aspect of his oeuvre, \u003ci\u003eBridging Benjamin\u003c\/i\u003e examines the dozens of radio broadcasts he produced, primarily for children, between 1927 and 1933. Delivered after the academic rejection of his notoriously complex \u003ci\u003eTrauerspiel, \u003c\/i\u003ethese shows became a testing ground for Benjamin's developing ideas and experimental pedagogy. Though they were cast off as inconsequential by both Benjamin and his contemporaries, Dominic Smith reveals the broadcasts to be a fruitful site for a novel, \"derailed\" interpretation of Benjamin's larger body of work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading Benjamin's radio production as a dynamic site of philosophical experimentation, Smith uses it as a channel and amplifier for three integral but underappreciated aspects of Benjamin's work: his philosophies of technology, place, and education. Showing how he used broadcast media to explore the increasing \"virtualization\" of place in networked society, \u003ci\u003eBridging Benjamin\u003c\/i\u003e encourages an embrace of Benjamin in contrast to his divisive historical counterparts in the philosophy of technology, such as Martin Heidegger and Carl Schmitt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterpreting Benjamin's broadcasts as a form of peripatetic thinking - deeply embedded in place, yet mobile and mediated - \u003ci\u003eBridging Benjamin\u003c\/i\u003e offers a compelling model for reassessing attachments to the technologies and practices shaping our contemporary worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRetail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56280869110104,"sku":"9781517919658","price":26.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781517919658.jpg?v=1781017230","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/bridging-benjamin-volume-68","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}