{"product_id":"second-thoughts-jeffrey-mehlman-9781942254171","title":"Second Thoughts: Further Adventures in the French Trade","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeorge Steiner's discussion of Jeffrey Mehlman's writing on Walter Benjamin gives the flavor of Mehlman's writing in \u003cem\u003eSecond Thoughts\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The arch erudition and playful intelligence of Jeffrey Mehlman's concise jeu d'esprit, Walter Benjamin for Children, sparkle. Mehlman weaves a sequence of associative arabesques, 'intertextually imbricated, psychoanalytically informed, ' on the script for two radio programmes for children which Benjamin wrote during 1929-1930. Almost in the style of a magician, Professor Mehlman demonstrates the literally catastrophic substance of Benjamin's tales for children. With a scholastic acuity and wit resembling that of Benjamin himself, Mehlman teases out in the thematic rootedness of catastrophe and fraud the \"phantom presence of the motif of a 'false messianism' which flowers, nearly subliminally, in these seemingly innocent broadcasts.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeffrey Mehlman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1942254172\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781942254171\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Unconscious in Translation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 154\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.47lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.33d","brand":"Jeffrey Mehlman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44634352287999,"sku":"9781942254171","price":49.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c7e7d09d-7aee-453a-b614-44e0a012c8be.jpg?v=1703588870","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/second-thoughts-jeffrey-mehlman-9781942254171","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}