Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's 'On the Concept of History by Chris Turner, Michael Löwy

Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's 'On the Concept of History

Chris Turner, Michael Löwy

148 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Revolutionary critic of the philosophy of progress, nostalgic of the past yet dreaming of the future, romantic partisan of materialism... Walter Benjamin is in every sense of the word an "unclassifiable" philosopher. His essay On the Concept of Hi...

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