Walter Benjamin : overpowering conformism / Esther Leslie.

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Leslie, Esther, 1964- [author.]

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9780585425993
058542599X
9781849645249
1849645248
9781783719617
1783719613
0745315682
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838/.91209 21

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PT2603.E455 Z726 2000eb

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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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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. 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-291) and index.

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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.

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