Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism

by Esther Leslie

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745315682
• ISBN13: 9780745315683
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.5"