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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823634303321

Autore

Martel James R

Titolo

Textual conspiracies : Walter Benjamin, idolatry, and political theory / / James R. Martel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2011

ISBN

1-283-24458-6

9786613244581

0-472-02819-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 p.)

Disciplina

838/.91209

Soggetti

Capitalism

Liberalism

Conspiracies

Politics and literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Walter Benjamin's conspiracy with language -- Kafka : the messiah who does nothing at all -- Machiavelli's conspiracy of open secrets -- Rendering the world into signs : Alexis de Tocqueville and Edgar Allan Poe -- Hannah Arendt, Federico Garcia lorca, and the place for the human -- Reconstructing the world : Frantz Fanon and Assia Djebar -- Conclusion : a faithless leap.