{"product_id":"mapping-benjamin-the-work-of-art-in-the-digital-age-9780804744355","title":"Mapping Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Digital Age","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht | Michael J. Marrinan\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Aesthetics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47614033461399,"sku":"9780804744355","price":15188.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780804744355.webp?v=1775090619","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/mapping-benjamin-the-work-of-art-in-the-digital-age-9780804744355","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}