Theatre Philosophicum: Thinking Literature and Politics with Walter Benjamin
Guardiola-Rivera, Oscar (2018) Theatre Philosophicum: Thinking Literature and Politics with Walter Benjamin. In: McCall, C. and Ross, N. (eds.) Benjamin, Adorno, and the Experience of Literature. Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy. Oxford, UK: Routledge, pp. 32-62. ISBN 9781138103429. (Submitted)
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Abstract
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera’s essay “Theatrum Philosophicum: Thinking Literature and Politics with Walter Benjamin” begins with Benjamin’s encounter with the work of Baudelaire, but rather than seeing this encounter as an opportunity to rethink the relationship between the work of Benjamin and Adorno, his essay offers a reading that shows how Benjamin rethinks utopia and the metaphorical transformation of politics and law in terms of uchrony: a present in which something happens to disrupt the standard routine of time passing. Guardiola-Rivera’s essay employs Baudelaire as a way to think against the standardisation of capitalism's law and empire and thereby decolonise and renew the critical impulse present in the Frankfurt School thinkers in a new idiom.
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| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Additional Information: | This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge. |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Law School |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Law and the Humanities, Centre for |
| Depositing User: | Oscar Guardiola-Rivera |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Apr 2018 14:04 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:40 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/21653 |
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