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Fire Alarm - Reading Walter Benjamin’s "On the Concept of History" (Paperback)
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Fire Alarm - Reading Walter Benjamin’s "On the Concept of History" (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 4 540
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Revolutionary critic of the philosophy of progress, nostalgic of
the past yet dreaming of the future, romantic partisan of
materialism - Walter Benjamin is in every sense of the word an
"unclassifiable" philosopher. His essay "On the Concept of History"
was written in a state of urgency, as he attempted to escape the
Gestapo in 1940, before finally committing suicide. In this
scrupulous, clear and fascinating examination of this essay,
Michael Löwy argues that it remains one of the most important
philosophical and political writings of the twentieth century.
Looking in detail at Benjamin's celebrated but often mysterious
text, and restoring the philosophical, theological and political
context, Löwy highlights the complex relationship between
redemption and revolution in Benjamin's philosophy of history.
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