Selected for honorable mention for the Morris D. Forkosch Prize in intellectual history, awarded annually by the Journal of the History of Ideas"This sophisticated yet reader-friendly study represents a significant advance in American criticism on Walter Benjamin. . . . I endorse Irving Wohlfarth"s statement that this is "the best book-length study of Benjamin yet to have appeared in English" and enthusiastically recommend it to novice and devotee alike."—Philosophy and Literature