| Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism Contributor(s): Leslie, Esther (Author) |
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ISBN: 0745315682 ISBN-13: 9780745315683 Publisher: Pluto Press (UK) OUR PRICE: $38.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2000 Annotation: 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 -- Esther Leslie offers powerful new insights into a key twentieth-century political thinker. She repositions Walter Benjamin's work in its historical and political context. In her examination of Benjamin's commentary on the politics and aesthetics of technology, from his work on nineteenth-century industrial culture to his analyses of the Nazi deployment of the bomber, Esther Leslie recontextualizes Benjamin's writings in a lucid and cogently argued new study. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - German |
| Dewey: 838.912 |
| LCCN: 00020282 |
| Series: Modern European Thinkers |
| Physical Information: 0.84" H x 5.33" W x 8.47" (1.06 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Cultural Region - Central Europe - Cultural Region - Germany |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Leslie, Esther: - Esther Leslie is professor of political aesthetics at Birkbeck, University of London. She is the author of many books and is, most recently, the editor and translator of Walter Benjamin's On Photography, also published by Reaktion Books. |