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Bloomsbury The Late Walter Benjamin (New Directions in Religion and Literature)

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This fully-annotated documentary novel explores the life and thought of Walter Benjamin, imaginatively examining its implications in the political context of a post-War London estate. A startling critical-creative examination of one of the 20th Century's leading thinkers, "The Late Walter Benjamin" is a documentary novel that juxtaposes the life and death of Walter Benjamin with the days, hours and minutes of a working-class council estate on the edge of London in post-war Austerity England. The novel centres on one particular tenant who claims to be Walter Benjamin, and only ever uses words written by Benjamin, apparently oblivious that the real Benjamin committed suicide 20 years earlier whilst fleeing the Nazis. Initially set in the sixties, the text slips back to the early years of the estate and to Benjamin's last days, as he moves across Europe seeking ever-more desperately to escape the Third Reich. Through this fictional narrative, John Schad explores not only the emergence of Benjamin's thinking from a politicised Jewish theology forced to confront the rise of Nazism but also the implications of his utopian Marxism, forged in exile, for the very different context of a displaced working class community in post-war Britain. This series aims to showcase new work at the forefront of religion and literature through short studies written by leading and rising scholars in the field. Books will pursue a variety of theoretical approaches as they engage with writing from different religious and literary traditions. Collectively, the series will offer a timely critical intervention to the interdisciplinary crossover between religion and literature, speaking to wider contemporary interests and mapping out new directions for the field in the early twenty-first century. Review 'as fascinating as the most experimental avant-garde mobilizations of literature during the interwar period. Stein, Breton, Pirandello and Pessoa come to mind.' --Geoffrey Hartman, Yale University, USA'says something previously unsaid about not only about Walter Benjamin but post-war Austerity Britain...and does so on the basis of rigorous historical and philosophical analysis.' --Esther Leslie, University of London, UK'...mixes apparently autobiographical fiction and social history with astute critical reworking of many of Walter Benjamin's most important ideas' --J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine, USA About the Author John Schad is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Lancaster.

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Brand: Bloomsbury
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1441171703
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Philosophy
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 03 May 2012
Listed Since: 21 October 2011

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