by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Michael Marrinan · Stanford University Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780804744362
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This book explores the relevance of Walter Benjamin's essay 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' in the context of contemporary digital culture. It compiles essays from various scholars offering a rich and wide-ranging critique of Benjamin's position, reflecting on the ethical, political, and aesthetic implications of life in the digital age. It analyzes how new technologies and the explosion of images and media impact fine arts and mass culture.
Hans Ulrich "Sepp" Gumbrecht is a German-born American literary theorist whose work spans philology, philosophy, semiotics, literary and cultural history, and epistemologies of the everyday. As of June 14, 2018, he is Albert Guérard Professor Emeritus in Literature at Stanford University. Since 1989, he held the Albert Guérard Chair as Professor in the Departments of Comparative literature and French and Italian in Stanford's Division of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures. By courtesy, he was also affiliated with the Departments of German studies, Iberian and Latin American Cultures, and the Program in Modern Thought and Literature. Since retirement, he continues to be a Catedratico Visitante Permanente at the University of Lisbon and became a Presidential Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2020.
