TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leslie, Esther.
TI  - Walter Benjamin: overpowering conformism
SN  - 9780745315683
U1  - 838.91209LES 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - London
PB  - Sterling, Va
KW  - Benjamin, Walter
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-291) and index
N2  - 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
ER  -