Walter Benjamin and the aesthetics of power / Lutz Koepnick.

Publication | Library Call Number: PT2603.E455 Z6994 1999

Series: Modern German culture and literature
Modern German culture and literature.
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Koepnick, Lutz P. (Lutz Peter)
Published: Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, 1999
Language: English

Physical Description: 276 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Baroque drama and the quest for autonomous politics
Carnival, industrial culture, and the politics of authenticity
Aesthetic dictatorship
Medusian politics
Modern visual culture and the politics of phantasmagoria
Perseus's paradox
Fascist aesthetics revisited
Benjamin's actuality.
ISBN: 0803227442
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-268) and index.

Baroque drama and the quest for autonomous politics -- Carnival, industrial culture, and the politics of authenticity -- Aesthetic dictatorship -- Medusian politics -- Modern visual culture and the politics of phantasmagoria -- Perseus's paradox -- Fascist aesthetics revisited -- Benjamin's actuality.
Subjects: National socialism and art.
Fascism and art.
Mass society.
Popular culture.
Aesthetics, Modern--20th century.
Benjamin, Walter,--1892-1940--Political and social views.
Benjamin, Walter,--1892-1940--Aesthetics.
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