| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
|
| Title Information: |
Walter Benjamin, idolatry, and political theory |
| Author: |
MartelJames R, |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
Ann Arbor |
| Published: |
University of Michigan Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
c2011 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (320 p.). |
| Subject: |
Politics and literature - |
| Subject: |
Conspiracies - |
| Subject: |
Liberalism - |
| Subject: |
Capitalism - |
| Personal Subject: |
Benjamin - Walter - Political and social views - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780472028191/ |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: |
9780472028191electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0472028197electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780472117727hbk. |
| ISBN: |
0472117726hbk. |
| Content Note: |
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 |