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    The Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin.David S. Ferris (ed.) - 2004 - Cambridge University Press.
    This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the work and thought of the highly influential twentieth-century critic and theorist Walter Benjamin. The volume provides examinations of the different aspects of Benjamin's work that have had a significant effect on contemporary critical and historical thought. Topics discussed by experts in the field include Benjamin's relation to the avant-garde movements of his time, the form of the work of art, his theories on language and mimesis, modernity, his relation to Brecht and the (...)
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  2. Agamben and the messianic: the slightest of differences.David Ferris - 2014 - In Anna Glazova & Paul North (eds.), Messianic thought outside theology. New York: Fordham University Press.
     
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  3. Before the museum: Diderot and the Salon.David S. Ferris - 2001 - Rivista di Estetica 41 (17):173-180.
     
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  4. Holderlin's Heidegger, Heidegger's mourning.David Ferris - 2023 - In Andrew Benjamin (ed.), Heidegger and literary studies. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
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    Morality without Intention: Benjamin’s Goethe and Hawthorne’s “The Minister’s Black Veil”.David Ferris - 2013 - Critical Horizons 14 (3):380-406.
    An examination of how, in literature, silence and veiling are related to moral significance. The paper emphasizes Walter Benjamin’s essay on Goethe’s Elective Affiniites and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Minister’s Black Veil” and poses the question of how the literary can possess moral meaning or effect when, as in these two works, silence and veiling appear as a means of refusing or denying intention. Benjamin’s and Hawthorne’s different critiques of the symbol are presented as the central issue around which the possibility (...)
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    Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings. Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. 768 pp. [REVIEW]David Ferris - 2016 - Critical Inquiry 42 (3):716-717.