"Introducing Walter Benjamin" follows the life and work of Benjamin, tracing his influence on modern aesthetics and cultural history as well as his particular focus on the tension between Marxism and Zionism, and between word and image in modern art. Benjamin was also one of the first critics to recognize that a technology that could reproduce art could also destroy it. With its brilliant combination of words and images provided by Howard Caygill and Alex Coles, and award-winning artist Andrzej Klimowski, here is the ideal introductino to this key modern philosopher and critic of modern art." -- from back cover. Edited by Richard Appignanesi.