TY  - GEN
T1  - Walter Benjamin : overpowering conformism
T2  - Modern European thinkers.
A1  - Leslie, Esther, 1964-
LA  - English
PP  - London ; Sterling, Virginia
PB  - Pluto Press
YR  - 2000
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm51002809
AB  - 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.
OP  - 298
CN  - PT2603.E455 Z726 2000eb
SN  - 9780585425993
SN  - 058542599X
SN  - 9781849645249
SN  - 1849645248
SN  - 9781783719617
SN  - 1783719613
SN  - 0745315682
SN  - 9780745315683
SN  - 9780745315737
SN  - 0745315739
SN  - 1783719621
KW  - Benjamin, Walter, : 1892-1940 : Political and social views.
KW  - Benjamin, Walter, : 1892-1940 : Pensée politique et sociale.
KW  - Benjamin, Walter, : 1892-1940
KW  - Benjamin, Walter, : 1892-1940.
KW  - Benjamin, Walter.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : German.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Political Ideologies : Democracy.
KW  - Political and social views
KW  - Filosofie.
KW  - German prose literature : 20th century : History and criticism.
KW  - Political scientists : Germany.
ER  -