Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism - Brossura

Leslie, Esther

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ISBN 10: 0745315682 ISBN 13: 9780745315683

Casa editrice: Pluto Pr, 2000

Riassunto

Esther Leslie’s path-breaking study of Walter Benjamin is unlike any other book presently available in English on Benjamin, in seeking to make a case for a more politicised reading of Benjamin’s oeuvre. In looking at the entirety of Benjamin’s work - rather than the four or five essays available in English which tend to form the Benjamin ‘canon’ - Leslie offers powerful new insights into a key twentieth-century political thinker, correcting the post-structuralist bias that has characterised so much Benjamin scholarship, and repositioning Benjamin’s work in its historical and political context. In her examination of Benjamin’s commentary on the politics and aesthetics of technology - from Benjamin’s work on nineteenth-century industrial culture to his analyses of the Nazi deployment of the bomber - Esther Leslie recontextualises Benjamin’s writings in a lucid and cogently argued new study.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Esther Leslie is a lecturer in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Contenuti:

Author’s note Preliminaries: An Accumulation of Technological Themes 1: Explosion of a Landscape 2: Benjamin’s Objectives 3: Berlin Chthonic, Photos and Trains and Films and Cars 4: Dream Whirled: Technik and Mirroring 5: Murmurs from Darkest Europe 6: The Work of Art in the Age of Unbearable Capitulation 7: Time for an Unnatural Death Benjamin’s Finale; Excavating and Re-membering

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Pluto Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0745315682
• ISBN 13: 9780745315683
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 298