Introduction; 1. Messianic Epistemology: Thesis XV - Robert Gibbs; 2. Between Melancholia and Fetishism: Benjamin's Losses - Rebecca Comay; 3. Trembling Contours: Kierkegaard - Benjamin - Brecht - Rainer Nagele; 4. Down the K Hole: Walter Benjamin's Destructive Landsurveying of History - Stephanie Polsky; 5. Benjamin and the History of Religion - Howard Caygill; 6. The Shortness of History: On the Thesis - David Ferris; 7. What is the Matter of Architecture History? - Gevoork Hartoonian; 8. Tradition as an Event: Benjamin and the Critics of Historicism - Philippe Simay; 9. Boredom and Distraction: The Moods of Modernity - Andrew Benjamin; 10. 'Now': Walter Benjamin and Historical Time - Wener Hamacher; 11. The Supposition of the Aura: The Now, the Then and Modernity - Georges Didi-Huberman; 12. Benjamin's History of the Interior - Charles Rice.

In this series devoted to the writings of Walter Benjamin each volume focuses on a theme central to contemporary work on Benjamin. The series aims to set new standards for work on Benjamin available in English for students and researchers in Philosophy, Cultural Studies and Literary Studies.