Baudelaire Contra Benjamin: A Critique of Politicized Aesthetics and Cultural Marxism 9781498595087, 1498595081

This book offers the first sustained argument against the philosophy of Walter Benjamin and his readings of Charles Baud

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Baudelaire Contra Benjamin: A Critique of Politicized Aesthetics and Cultural Marxism
9781498595087, 1498595081

Is Kant really the ‘bourgeois’ philosopher that his advocates and opponents take him to be? In this bold and original re

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In the 1980s, leading philosophers at Oxford, Chicago and UCLA undertook a controversial reassessment of Marxism using t

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This is a study of Baudelaire's canonization in the critical debates of the twentieth century, focusing particularl

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This is the first monograph to thoroughly analyse Benjamin’s film writings, contextualizing them within his oeuvre whils

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This study serves as a survey of analytical Marxists' contributions to the understanding of historical materialism,

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Gadamer’s writing on art is typically seen as supporting his philosophical theory of truth. Drawing together a coherent

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Exploring the connections between Walter Benjamin’s philosophy of history and a Marxian Critique of Political Economy, D

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Besides products and services multinational corporations also sell myths, values and immaterial goods. Such »meta-goods«

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In this work, originally released in 1983, Barry Smart examines the relevance of Foucault's work for developing an

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