02735nam 22006254a 450 991045481410332120200520144314.01-78371-961-31-84964-524-80-585-42599-X(CKB)111056486518392(StDuBDS)AH22933811(SSID)ssj0000268822(PQKBManifestationID)11240953(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000268822(PQKBWorkID)10237037(PQKB)10214424(SSID)ssj0000520420(PQKBManifestationID)12233448(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000520420(PQKBWorkID)10516809(PQKB)10784404(MiAaPQ)EBC3386084(MiAaPQ)EBC5391045(Au-PeEL)EBL3386084(CaPaEBR)ebr2001167(CaONFJC)MIL987228(OCoLC)51002809(EXLCZ)9911105648651839220000103d2000 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrWalter Benjamin[electronic resource] overpowering conformism /Esther LeslieLondon ;Sterling, Va. Pluto Press20001 online resource (320 p.)Modern European thinkersBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7453-1568-2 0-7453-1573-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-291) and index.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.Modern European thinkers.Electronic books.838/.91209Leslie Esther955878MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454814103321Walter Benjamin2163572UNINA