Walter Benjamin : overpowering conformism
Esther Leslie (Author)
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 20th-century political thinker
xiv, 298 pages ; 22 cm
9780745315683, 9780745315737, 0745315682, 0745315739
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Author’s notePreliminaries: An Accumulation of Technological Themes1. Explosion of a Landscape2. Benjamin’s Objectives3. Berlin Chthonic, Photos and Trains and Films and Cars 4. Dream Whirled: Technik and Mirroring5. Murmurs from Darkest Europe6. The Work of Art in the Age of Unbearable Capitulation 7. Time for an Unnatural DeathBenjamin’s Finale; Excavating and Re-membering