Walter Benjamin, or, Towards a revolutionary criticism

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This momentous study of Benjamin's critical practice marks a sea change in Eagleton's thought. As the subtitle suggests, its goal is not merely to contemplate Benjamin's approach to language, history, and art but to chart a dynamic new course for contemporary socialist criticism. To do this, Eagleton brushes Benjamin's Trauerspiel against seventeenth-century British literature, tests his concept of the "aura" against Freud and Lacan, and undertakes his most sustained engagement with Derrida and…

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Full title :Walter Benjamin, or, Towards a revolutionary criticism / Terry Eagleton.

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Publication Date:1981.

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Publisher(s):Verso
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:1981.

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Description:187 pages

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ISBN:0860910369, 9780860910367, 0860917339, 9780860917335, 0860910369, 9780860910367, 0860917339, 9780860917335
oclc:ocn896675171
LC Classification:PN75.B43
Dewey Decimal:838 UKD

I. Walter Benjamin. 1. The Baroque Allegoty -- 2. Aura and Commodity -- 3. History, tradition and revolution -- II. Towards a revolutionary criticism. 1. Marxist criticism -- 2. A Small History of Rhetoric -- 3. On Textuality -- 4. Marxism and Deconstruction -- 5. Carnival and Comedy: Bakhtin and Brecht -- 6. The Angel of History.

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