Walter Benjamin : overpowering conformism /
Leslie, Esther, 1964-
Walter Benjamin : overpowering conformism / Esther Leslie. - 1 online resource (xiv, 298 pages) - Modern European thinkers . - Modern European thinkers. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-291) and index.
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.
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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.
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
English.
9780585425993 (electronic book) 058542599X (electronic book) 9781849645249 (electronic book) 1849645248 (electronic book) 9781783719617 1783719613 0745315682 9780745315683 (hardback) (hardback) (paperback) (paperback)
9780745315683
00314859 22573/ctt18fp078 JSTOR
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 --Political and social views.
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 --Pensée politique et sociale.
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.
Benjamin, Walter.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--German.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Ideologies--Democracy.
Political and social views.
Filosofie.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
PT2603.E455 / Z726 2000eb
838/.91209
Walter Benjamin : overpowering conformism / Esther Leslie. - 1 online resource (xiv, 298 pages) - Modern European thinkers . - Modern European thinkers. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-291) and index.
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.
Use copy
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.
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
English.
9780585425993 (electronic book) 058542599X (electronic book) 9781849645249 (electronic book) 1849645248 (electronic book) 9781783719617 1783719613 0745315682 9780745315683 (hardback) (hardback) (paperback) (paperback)
9780745315683
00314859 22573/ctt18fp078 JSTOR
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 --Political and social views.
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 --Pensée politique et sociale.
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.
Benjamin, Walter.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--German.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Ideologies--Democracy.
Political and social views.
Filosofie.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
PT2603.E455 / Z726 2000eb
838/.91209