Walter Benjamin and History

AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction, Andrew Benjamin (Monash University, Australia)1. The Supposition of the Aura: The Now, The Then, and Modernity, Georges Didi-Huberman 2. The Shortness of History or, Photography In Nuce: Benjamin's Attenuation of the Negative, David Ferris(University of Colorado, USA)3. 'Now': Walter Benjamin and Historical Time, Werner Hamacher (Goethe University, Germany)4. Down the K. Hole: Walter Benjamin's Destructive Landsurveying of History, Stephanie Polsky (Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK)5. Between Melancholia and Fetishism: Benjamin's Losses, Rebecca Comay (Univeristy of Toronto, Canada)6. Trembling Contours: Kierkegaard - Benjamin - Brecht, Rainer Nagele (John Hopkins University, USA)7. The Subject of History: Benjamin's facies hypocritica, Dimitris Vardoulakis (Monash University, Australia)8. Tradition as Injunction: Benjamin and the Critique of Historicisms, Philippe Simay (Ecole d'Architecture, Paris-Belleville)9. Boredom and Distraction: The Moods of Modernity, Andrew Benjamin (Monash University, Australia)10. Walter Benjamin's Interior History, Charles Rice (University of New South Wales, Australia)11. What is the Matter with Architecture History?, Gevork Hartoonian (University of Canberra, Australia)12. Messianic Epistemology: Thesis XV, Robert Gibbs (University of Toronto, Canada) 13. Benjamin and the History of Religion, Howard Caygill (Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK)Contributors