Walter Benjamin : overpowering conformism /

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 essay...

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Main Author: Leslie, Esther, 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; Sterling, Virginia : Pluto Press, 2000
Series:Modern European thinkers.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: An Accumulation of Technological Themes
  • Explosion of a Landscape
  • Benjamin's Objectives
  • Berlin Chthonic, Photos and Trains and Films and Cars
  • Dream Whirled: Technik and Mirroring
  • Murmurs from Darkest Europe
  • The Work of Art in the Age of Unbearable Capitulation
  • Time for an Unnatural Death
  • Benjamin's Finale: Excavating and Remembering.