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Title: Dwarf in the Chess Machine, The: Benjamin’s Hidden Doctrine
Author: CAUTER LIEVEN DE
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 10/12/2018
Imprint: 010 PUBLISHERS
Price: $70.00
Publishing status: Active
This thorough study on the work of the German-Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin exposes – in
Benjamin’s own metaphor – the ‘dwarf of theology’ hidden in the machinery of his work, his own
form of ‘historical materialism’. In doing so it unearths and explains his language theory, his art
theory, his most cryptic baroque book, his philosophy of history, and, last but not least, his famous
labyrinthine unfinished opus magnum on Paris, The Arcades project (the first philosophical book
ever on the city). The result is a detailed, meticulous, and lucid analysis of the structure of
Benjamin’s texts and an indispensable book for everyone who admires the work of one of the most
influential thinkers of the twentieth century.
474 p, no ills, 15 x 23 cm
ISBN: 9789462084971
Dimension: 230mm X 150mm
Pages: 512