Walter Benjamin

Or, Towards a Revolutionary Criticism

Terry Eagleton

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Verso
24 March 2025

Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Philosophy; Marxism & Communism

This momentous study of Benjamin's critical practice marks a sea change in Eagleton's thought. 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.

By: Terry Eagleton
Imprint: Verso
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
Weight: 300g
ISBN: 9781804296165
ISBN 10: 1804296163
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 24 March 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Terry Eagleton is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow, University of Manchester. His other books include Ideology; The Function of Criticism; Heathcliff and the Great Hunger; Against the Grain; Walter Benjamin; and Criticism and Ideology, all from Verso

Reviews for Walter Benjamin: Or, Towards a Revolutionary Criticism

Eagleton's text, saturated with Benjamin's language and yet constantly prising away from it, is wholly absorbing, like an account of a difficult love-affair, or a novel of exchanged identities. -- David Forgacs * Poetics Today * Eagleton is second to none among cultural critics writing in the English language today. * Guardian *