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

by Michael Löwy

Book Overview

This illuminating study of Benjamin's final essay helps unlock the mystery of this great philosopher 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 History" was written in a state of urgency, as he attempted to escape the Gestapo in 1940, before finally...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784786411
• ISBN13: 9781784786410
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.1"