The Revolution is the Emergency Break : Essays on Walter Benjamin (Paperback)

Part 1: Magnetic Fields. 1. Capitalism as religion: Walter Benjamin and Max Weber 2. A historical materialism with Romantic splinters: Walter Benjamin and Karl Marx 3. Elective affinities: Walter Benjamin and Gerschom Scholem 4. Messianism against "progress": Walter Benjamin and Franz Rosenzweig 5. The romantic dimension: Marcuse and Benjamin 6. Two Marxist dissidents against the ideology of “progress”: Walter Benjamin and Jose Carlos Mariategui. Part 2: On Revolution. 7. The ringing clock: Walter Benjamin's Anarchism 8. Benjamin and surrealism: The story of a revolutionary spell 9. The revolution is the emergency brake: Walter Benjamin's political-ecological currency 10. Seven theses on Walter Benjamin and critical theory 11. “Slaughters with chlorazenophenol”: Walter Benjamin's belated reflections on World War I 12. Theology and anti-fascism in the writings of Walter Benjamin 13. The viewpoint of the vanquished in the history of Latin America: Methodological reflections on the work of Walter Benjamin 14. The city as a strategic place of class confrontation: Uprisings, barricades and the Haussmannization of Paris in the Arcades Project