Benjamin's philosophy of history : the Messianic is now -- The Kafka-essays and The origin of German tragic drama : on failure and the limits of human understanding -- The 'will to allegory' and the 'distortion' of truth in history.
Summary
In Walter Benjamin. Presence of Mind, Failure to Comprehend Stéphane Symons offers an innovative reading of the work of German philosopher, essayist and literary critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) that characterizes his writings as "neither a-theological, nor immediately theological."
