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Steinberg,"TheCollectoras Allegorist"96-104; David S. Ferris,"Introduction: Aura,Resistance,andthe Eventof History,"WalterBenjamin:Theoretical Questions1-26;andin the samevolume,SamuelWeber,"MassMediauras;or, Art, Aura, and Media in the Work of WalterBenjamin"27-49. See also Beatrice Hanssen, WalterBenjamin'sOtherHistory:Of Stones,Animals,HumanBeings, andAngels (Berkeley: U of CaliforniaP, 1998) esp. 13-22; and HelmutLethen,"UnheimlicheNihe: Carl Schmittliest WalterBenjamin,"Frankfurter AllgemeineZeitung16 Sept.
See Wolff, "Memoirs and Micrologies" 116-17. The fact thathe died at the handsof fascismwas of coursetantamountto such readings. 73. TerryEagleton,"Homageto WalterBenjamin,"WalterBenjamin;or, Towards a RevolutionaryCriticism(London& New York:Verso, 1981) 183. 148 Benjamin in the Age of Information remarked, in his opening dedication to Walter Benjamin's Passages, his sustainedengagementwith the work of Benjaminappearedat times (in the view of his wife) like a menage a trois. "74Where,then, does Benjamincriticismstandat the end of the century?
Ferris,"Introduction: Aura,Resistance,andthe Eventof History,"WalterBenjamin:Theoretical Questions1-26;andin the samevolume,SamuelWeber,"MassMediauras;or, Art, Aura, and Media in the Work of WalterBenjamin"27-49. See also Beatrice Hanssen, WalterBenjamin'sOtherHistory:Of Stones,Animals,HumanBeings, andAngels (Berkeley: U of CaliforniaP, 1998) esp. 13-22; and HelmutLethen,"UnheimlicheNihe: Carl Schmittliest WalterBenjamin,"Frankfurter AllgemeineZeitung16 Sept. 1999 56. 79. For an insightfulnew readingof Benjamin'sopaque and ill-fatedHabilitationsschrift,see Hanssen,WalterBenjamin'sOtherHistory,esp.