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Textual conspiracies [electronic resource] : Walter Benjamin, idolatry, and political theory / James R. Martel.

By: Martel, James R.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2011Description: xii, 305 p.Subject(s): Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- Political and social views | Capitalism | Liberalism | Conspiracies | Politics and literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 838/.91209 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
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.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.