Revolution and History in Walter Benjamin: A Conceptual Analysis

ISBN-13: 9780367077525 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 156 str.

Alison Ross

Opis

This book places Benjamin’s writing on revolution in the context of his conception of historical knowledge. Through a detailed study of Benjamin’s writings, this book shows how the conceptual analysis of his corpus can get to the heart of Benjamin’s conception of revolutionary experience.

O autorze

Alison Ross is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Monash University, Australia. She is the author of Walter Benjamin’s Concept of the Image (Routledge, 2015) and The Aesthetic Paths of Philosophy: Presentation in Kant, Heidegger, Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy (2007). She is also the author of the Oxford Bibliography Online entry on Walter Benjamin.