Textual Conspiracies : Walter Benjamin, Idolatry, and Political Theory.
Title:
Textual Conspiracies : Walter Benjamin, Idolatry, and Political Theory.
Author:
Martel, James.
ISBN:
9780472028191
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (318 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Preface: No Hope -- Introduction: Textual Conspiracies -- Part I -- 1. Walter Benjamin's Conspiracy with Language -- 2. Kafka: The Messiah Who Does Nothing at All -- 3. Machiavelli's Conspiracy of Open Secrets -- Part II -- 4. Rendering the World into Signs: Alexis de Tocqueville and Edgar Allan Poe -- 5. Hannah Arendt, Federico García Lorca, and the Place for the Human -- 6. Reconstructing the World: Frantz Fanon and Assia Djebar -- Conclusion: A Faithless Leap: The Conspiracy That Is Already Here -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Engaging political and literary luminaries in an alternative narrative about power.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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