Walter Benjamin: Or, Towards a Revolutionary Criticism

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This momentous study of Benjamins critical practice marks a sea change in Eagletons thought. Its goal is not merely to contemplate Benjamins approach to language, history, and art but to chart a dynamic new course for contemporary socialist criticism. To do this, Eagleton brushes Benjamins 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.

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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 *

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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