{"product_id":"mapping-benjamin-the-work-of-art-in-the-digital-age-9780804744362","title":"Mapping Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Digital Age","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince its publication in 1936, Walter Benjamin's \"Artwork\" essay has become a canonical text about the status and place of the fine arts in modern mass culture. Benjamin was especially concerned with the ability of new technologies--notably film, sound recording, and photography--to reproduce works of art in great number. Benjamin could not have foreseen the explosion of imagery and media that has occurred during the past fifty years. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDoes Benjamin's famous essay still speak to this new situation? That is the question posed by the editors of this book to a wide range of leading scholars and thinkers across a spectrum of disciplines in the humanities. The essays gathered here do not hazard a univocal reply to that question; rather they offer a rich, wide-ranging critique of Benjamin's position that refracts and reflects contemporary thinking about the ethical, political, and aesthetic implications of life in the digital age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/28\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Writing Science\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.08lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.12h x 6.08w x 0.87d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804744362","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45175696785545,"sku":"9780804744362","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_e836185b-a1ca-474a-9b9b-050f08d47915.jpg?v=1768892295","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/mapping-benjamin-the-work-of-art-in-the-digital-age-9780804744362","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}