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Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism Paperback - 2000

by Esther Leslie


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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 recontextualises Benjamin's writings in a lucid and cogently argued new study.

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  • Title Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism
  • Author Esther Leslie
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First edition
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Pluto Press (UK), London
  • Date June 1, 2000
  • ISBN 9780745315683 / 0745315682
  • Weight 1.06 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.47 x 5.33 x 0.84 in (21.51 x 13.54 x 2.13 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1949
    • Cultural Region: Central Europe
    • Cultural Region: Germany
  • Library of Congress subjects Benjamin, Walter - Political and social views
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00020282
  • Dewey Decimal Code 838.912

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  • Reference and Research Bk News, 08/01/2001, Page 247

About the author

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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