Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2010
Abstract
This scholary article lines up a critique in a comparison of first-class readings of Benjamin given very exactly by such cultural critics of note as Theodor W. Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Leo Bersani, Susan Buck-Morss, Carol Jacobs, Martin Jay, Gregg Lambert, Pierre Missac and Richard Wolin, among others; this is all in order to index the degree of development of Benjamin’s radically cultic function today in cultural studies; questions about modernism and postmodernism and the refication, commodification and fragmentation of academic-intellectual work in the academy and of its rôle in the cultural reception of Benjamin’s radical leftist and subversive creative work are also spotlighted.