Textual conspiracies
Subtitle: Walter Benjamin, idolatry, and political theory
By: James R. Martel
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780472117727; 9780472028191
Subjects: Political and social views; Politics and literature; Conspiracies; Liberalism; Capitalism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Walter Benjamin's conspiracy with language; title: Kafka : the messiah who does nothing at all; title: Machiavelli's conspiracy of open secrets; title: Rendering the world into signs : Alexis de Tocqueville and Edgar Allan Poe; title: Hannah Arendt, Federico Garcia lorca, and the place for the human; title: Reconstructing the world : Frantz Fanon and Assia Djebar; title: Conclusion : a faithless leap.