Professor Andrew Benjamin

Andrew Benjamin is Professor of Critical Theory and Philosophical Aesthetics in the Centre. He was previously Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature at Warwick University. An internationally recognised authority on contemporary French and German critical theory, he has been Visiting Professor at Columbia University in New York and Visiting Critic at the Architectural Association in London. His many books include: What is Deconstruction? (1988), Art, Mimesis and the Avant-Garde (1991), Present Hope: Philosophy, Architecture, Judaism (1997), Philosophy's Literature (2001) and Disclosing Spaces: On Painting (2004). He also edited The Lyotard Reader(1989), Abjection, Melancholia and Love: the Work of Julia Kristeva(1990) and Walter Benjamin's Philosophy: Destruction and Experience (1993) and Walter Benjamin and Romanticism (2002).

Research interests

• Literature and philosophy.
• Architecture and philosophy.
• French and German critical theory, especially Adorno and Benjamin, Kristeva and Lyotard.

Selected Publications

Books

• A. Benjamin, Style and Time: Essays on the Politics of Appearance, North Western University Press, Evanston, 2006.
• A. Benjamin, Disclosing Spaces: On Painting, Clinamen Press, 2004.
• A. Benjamin, Philosophy's Literature, Clinamen Press, Manchester, 2001.
• A. Benjamin, Architectural Philosophy, Athlone Press, London, 2000.
• A. Benjamin, Present Hope: Philosophy, Architecture, Judaism, Routledge, London, 1997.
• A. Benjamin, What is Abstraction? , Academy Editions, London, 1996.
• A. Benjamin, Object Painting, Academy Editions, London, 1994.
• A. Benjamin, The Plural Event, Routledge, London, 1993.
• A. Benjamin, Art, Mimesis and the Avant-Garde, Routledge, London, 1991.
• A. Benjamin, Translation and the Nature of Philosophy , Routledge, London, 1989.
• C. Norris and A. Benjamin, What is Deconstruction?, St. Martins Press, New York, 1988. (German edition: Was ist Dekonstruktion? Verlag fur Architektur, Artemis, Munich, 1990).

Edited Books

• A. Benjamin (ed.) Walter Benjamin and Art, Continuum Books, London and New York, 2005.
• A. Benjamin (ed.) Walter Benjamin and History, Continuum Books, London and New York, 2005.
• Andrew Benjamin, Tony Davies and Robbie B.H. Goh (eds) Postcolonial Culture and Literatures: Modernity and the Commonwealth, Peter Lang, New York, 376 pp., 2002.
• Hanssen, B. and Benjamin, A. (eds) Walter Benjamin and Romanticism Continuum, London and New York, vii + 246 pp., 2002
• A. Benjamin (ed.), Abstraction, Academy Editions, London, 1995.
• A. Benjamin (ed.), Complexity: Architecture, Art, Philosophy, Academy Editions, London, 1995.
• A. Benjamin and P. Osborne (eds), Walter Benjamin's Philosophy: Destruction and Experience, Routledge, London, 1993.
• A. Benjamin (ed.), Judging Lyotard, Routledge, London, 1992.
• A. Benjamin and P.Osborne (eds), Thinking Art: Beyond Traditional Aesthetics, ICA Publications, London, 1991.
• J. Fletcher and A. Benjamin (eds.), Abjection, Melancholia and Love: The Work of Julia Kristeva, Routledge, London, 1990.
• A. Papadikis, C. Cooke and A. Benjamin (eds), Deconstruction: Omnibus Volume, Academy Editions, London, 1989.
• A. Benjamin (ed.), The Lyotard Reader, Blackwell, Oxford, 1989.
• A. Benjamin (ed.), Problems of Modernity: Adorno and Benjamin, Routledge. 1989. London.
• A. Benjamin (ed.), Post-Structuralist Classics , Routledge, London, 1988.
• A. Benjamin, G.N. Cantor and J.R.R. Christie (eds), The Figural and the Literal: Problems of Language in the History of Science and Philosophy 1630-1800 , Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1987.