Walter Benjamin: Overpowering ConformismPluto Press, 20 mei 2000 - 298 pagina's 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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... collective object and victim - sacrifice of technol- ogy's machinations in war . Viewing the catastrophic hellfire world of one total war and hurtling towards the holocaust of another , the collective appears a sacrificial wreck of a ...
... collective object and victim - sacrifice of technol- ogy's machinations in war . Viewing the catastrophic hellfire world of one total war and hurtling towards the holocaust of another , the collective appears a sacrificial wreck of a ...
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... collective body provides Benjamin's justification of materialism as the only appropriate framework of analysis . ( Benjamin's materialism is stunningly literal , rejecting an interest in ' abstract matter ' , insistent instead on the ...
... collective body provides Benjamin's justification of materialism as the only appropriate framework of analysis . ( Benjamin's materialism is stunningly literal , rejecting an interest in ' abstract matter ' , insistent instead on the ...
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... collective imaginary : In the collective consciousness images , in which the new is inter- mingled with the old , correspond to the form of the new means of production , which to begin with is still dominated , by old forms ( Marx ) ...
... collective imaginary : In the collective consciousness images , in which the new is inter- mingled with the old , correspond to the form of the new means of production , which to begin with is still dominated , by old forms ( Marx ) ...
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Benjamins Objectives | 42 |
Berlin Chthonic Photos and Trains and Films and Cars | 63 |
Technik and Mirroring | 89 |
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