What Benjamin Read (& Saw)
We will read and see with Walter Benjamin.
We envision this working group as something of a salon where faculty
and graduate students will be able to discuss the work of Walter Benjamin. In contrast
to other Townsend groups devoted to Critical Theory, our aim is not solely to read
Benjamin and his contemporaries, but to read with him—to read what he read and take
time to look at what he saw. We wish to put Benjamin’s thought in dialogue with the
philosophers, thinkers, artists, and cities with which he was engaged—especially those
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