Rainer Nägele Theater, Theory, Speculation: Walter Benjamin and the Scenes of Modernity. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. First edition. 0801841232 232 pages. Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is bound in light brown cloth, with black lettering to spine. Book displays light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Pages are clean and bright. Intact dust jacket is preserved in mylar. "In "Theater, Theory, Speculation:" Rainer Nägele examines the interrelation of theater, rhetoric, and theory in the Trauerspiel and offers the first comprehensive exploration of Benjamin's startling reading of modernity in the Baroque. Nägele reads Benjamin's book as a theory of language and writing that confronts the reader with precisely the problems and issues that constitute current theoretical debates about textuality, history, and subjectivity."