Delimiting Literary Criticism: Walter Benjamin’s Dissertation Available to Purchase

Kevin McLaughlin has been the dean of the faculty at Brown University since 2011. He is the George Hazard Crooker University Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and German Studies at Brown and is the author of three books, Writing in Parts: Imitation and Exchange in 19th-Century Literature (Stanford University Press, 1995); Paperwork: Literature and Mass Mediacy in the Age of Paper (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005); and Poetic Force: Poetry after Kant (Stanford University Press, 2014). McLaughlin is also the cotranslator with Howard Eiland of Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project (Harvard University Press, 1999). His current project is a book entitled Philology of Life: Walter Benjamin’s Literary Critical Project, Program: 1914-1925.