Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism by Leslie, Esther

Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780745315683)

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Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism by Leslie, Esther

Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism

$40.00
Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism by Leslie, Esther

Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism

$40.00
Format: Paperback
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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 re-contextualises Benjamin's writings in a lucid and cogently argued new study.

Author: Esther Leslie
ISBN-10: 0745315682
ISBN-13: 9780745315683
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Language: English
Published: 07/20/2000
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 8.47h x 5.33w x 0.84d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2001 pg. 247
By Esther Leslie
By Esther Leslie
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Stephen Nugent is the head of the Anthropology Department at Goldsmiths College, University of London, a song writer (with Ian Dury) and the author (with Humphrey Ocean) of Big Mouth: The Amazon Speaks (Fourth Estate, 1990). Cris Shore is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Auckland (New Zealand). His most recent publications are: Up Close and Personal: On Peripheral Perspectives and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge', Oxford/New York: Berghahn (co-edited with Susanna Trnka, 2013) and 'The Sage Handbook of Social Anthropology'.

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