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Walter Benjamin overpowering conformism

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London Sterling, Va 2000Description: xiv, 298 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780745315683
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 838.91209LES
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-291) and index.

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.

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