Cover art for Walter Benjamin
Published
Verso, March 2025
ISBN
9781804296165
Format
Softcover, 208 pages
Dimensions
19.8cm × 12.9cm

Walter Benjamin Or, Towards a Revolutionary Criticism by

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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.

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