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An intellectual out of the ordinary: Walter Benjamin or surrealist thought
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The two essays that make up this little book shed light on one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century: Walter Benjamin. Born in Berlin in 1892, the son of assimilated petty-bourgeois Jewish parents, Benjamin became an intellectual out of the ordinary, a kind of prototype of the Mannheimian 'unattached' intellectual, devoid of institutional ties. This unstable situation would be decisive for the development of his fragmented, anti-systematic work par excellence. Together, the two texts, by F. Querido (UNICAMP, Brazil) and Michael Löwy (CNRS, France), reveal some of the most fascinating aspects of his singular work, whose 'surrealist thought', in Ernst Bloch's words about Sens unique, seems to escape framing in the usual currents of modern thought. It is this intellectual 'solitude' that makes Benjamin one of the most seductive figures of the twentieth century, a figure who, not coincidentally, still haunts us in the twenty-first century.
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Fabio Mascaro Querido is professor of sociology at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. Author of the book Michael Löwy: marxism and the critique of modernity, published in Brazil (Boitempo, 2016) and Argentina (Herramienta, 2019). Author of several essays on Walter Benjamin, published in various Brazilian and international journals.
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- Allgemeine Informationen
- GTIN 09786207177943
- Sprache Englisch
- Genre Social Sciences
- Anzahl Seiten 52
- Größe H220mm x B220mm x T150mm
- Jahr 2024
- EAN 9786207177943
- Format Kartonierter Einband
- ISBN 978-620-7-17794-3
- Titel An intellectual out of the ordinary: Walter Benjamin or surrealist thought
- Autor Fabio Querido , Michael Löwy
- Untertitel DE
- Herausgeber Our Knowledge Publishing