Leslie, Esther. <br/><br/>
Walter Benjamin  overpowering conformism 

 - London  Sterling, Va  2000 
 - xiv, 298 p. ; 22 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-291) and index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780745315683 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Benjamin, Walter.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>838.91209LES