Duy Lap Nguyen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of Houston, Texas, USA.

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Messianism and Mechanical Time in Benjamin's Early Writings
3. Capitalism, Property and the State in Benjamin's Early Writings
4. Between Marx and Fourier
5. Benjamin and Bataille: Sovereignty and Mass Reproduction
6. Capitalism and Primal History in the Arcades Project
7. Conclusion
Index