Walter Benjamin, Franz Borkenau, and the Story of the Alienated Individual
In this article I claim that Walter Benjamin’s work is important for thinking our way toward revolutionary politics from a linguistic-cultural perspective. I do so by bringing Franz Borkenau’s work on what he calls the ‘I-form’ of speech into contact with Benjamin’s figure of ‘the storeyteller’. I t...
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New Proposals Publishing Society
2016-11-01
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| Online Access: | https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/newproposals/article/view/187647 |