Benjamin as historian.(Walter Benjamin and History; Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's "On the Concept of History")(Book review)

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Walter Benjamin and History. Walter Benjamin Studies Series. Edited by Andrew Benjamin. New York: Continuum, 2005. vii + 260 pages.

Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's "On the Concept of History." By Michael Lowy. Translated by Chris Turner. London: Verso, 2005. 148 pages. 

 
   History [as discipline] disseminates the deception of the complete 
   controllability of everything actual, insofar as [the field of] 
   history moves along whatever is superficial and deflects the 
   surface itself as the singularity of sufficient actuality. (1)

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