Textual conspiracies

Martel, James R.

Textual conspiracies Walter Benjamin, idolatry, and political theory / [electronic resource] : James R. Martel. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2011. - xii, 305 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Walter Benjamin's conspiracy with language -- Kafka : the messiah who does nothing at all -- Machiavelli's conspiracy of open secrets -- Rendering the world into signs : Alexis de Tocqueville and Edgar Allan Poe -- Hannah Arendt, Federico Garcia lorca, and the place for the human -- Reconstructing the world : Frantz Fanon and Assia Djebar -- Conclusion : a faithless leap.


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Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 --Political and social views.


Capitalism.
Liberalism.
Conspiracies.
Politics and literature.


Electronic books.

PT2603.E455 / Z73315 2011eb

838/.91209