Walter Benjamin
Or, Towards a Revolutionary Criticism
Published on 26. November 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-1-80429-616-5 (ISBN)
Description
This momentous study of Benjamin's critical practice marks a sea change in Eagleton's thought. 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 the political crossroads of deconstruction.
Reviews / Votes
Eagleton's text, saturated with Benjamin's language and yet constantly prising away from it, is wholly absorbing, like an account of a difficult love-affair, or a novel of exchanged identities. -- David Forgacs * Poetics Today * Eagleton is second to none among cultural critics writing in the English language today. * Guardian *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
170 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80429-616-5 (9781804296165)
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E-Book
05/2020
Verso Books
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Person
Terry Eagleton is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow, University of Manchester. His other books include Ideology; The Function of Criticism; Heathcliff and the Great Hunger; Against the Grain; Walter Benjamin; and Criticism and Ideology, all from Verso