Michael Löwy

The Revolution is the Emergency Break

Essays on Walter Benjamin

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Produktbeschreibung

The Revolution is the Emergency Break is a rich compilation of Walter Benjamin's lesser-known writings by renowned social scientist Michael Löwy. Translated into several languages but available in English for the very first time, Löwy brings together the philosophical, literary, theological, and cultural aspects of Benjamin's writings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 138
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 361g
• ISBN-13: 9781032743981
• ISBN-10: 1032743980
• Artikelnr.: 70206200

Autorenporträt

Michael Löwy completed two PhDs at the Sorbonne, in 1964 and 1974. He is the recipient of the CNRS Silver Medal as the best French social scientist (1994) and the European Walter Benjamin Prize (2020). His writings have been translated into 30 languages. He co-authored, with Joel Kovel and Ian Angus, the ecosocialist Declaration of Belem (2009) at the Belem Social World Forum (Brazil). He is a member of the steering committee of the Global Ecosocialist Network.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Magnetic Fields. 1. Capitalism as religion: Walter Benjamin and Max
Weber 2. A historical materialism with Romantic splinters: Walter Benjamin
and Karl Marx 3. Elective affinities: Walter Benjamin and Gerschom Scholem
4. Messianism against "progress": Walter Benjamin and Franz Rosenzweig 5.
The romantic dimension: Marcuse and Benjamin 6. Two Marxist dissidents
against the ideology of "progress": Walter Benjamin and José Carlos
Mariátegui. Part 2: On Revolution. 7. The ringing clock: Walter Benjamin's
Anarchism 8. Benjamin and surrealism: The story of a revolutionary spell 9.
The revolution is the emergency brake: Walter Benjamin's
political-ecological currency 10. Seven theses on Walter Benjamin and
critical theory 11. "Slaughters with chlorazenophenol": Walter Benjamin's
belated reflections on World War I 12. Theology and anti-fascism in the
writings of Walter Benjamin 13. The viewpoint of the vanquished in the
history of Latin America: Methodological reflections on the work of Walter
Benjamin 14. The city as a strategic place of class confrontation:
Uprisings, barricades and the Haussmannization of Paris in the Arcades
Project