Walter Benjamin, or, Towards a revolutionary criticism
By: Terry Eagleton.
Publisher: Verso Editions and NLB; Distributed in the USA and Canada by Schocken Books
Published: 1981
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
Other titles: Towards a revolutionary criticism.
Description: This momentous study of Benjamin's critical practice marks a sea change in Eagleton's thought. As the subtitle suggests, 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical footnotes and index.