The Politics of Imagination Benjamin, Kracauer, Kluge

This book explores Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer and Alexander Kluge's analyses of the role that a rejuvenation in the capacity for imagination can play in encouraging us to reconceive the possibilities of the past, the present, and the future outside of the parameters of the status quo....

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Main Author: Forrest, Tara (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2007
Series:Kultur- und Medientheorie
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