Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Power

Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Power explores Walter Benjamin’s seminal writings on the relationship between mass culture and fascism. The book offers a nuanced reading of Benjamin’s widely influential critique of aesthetic politics, while it contributes to current debates about the cultural projects of Nazi Germany, the changing role of popular culture in the twentieth century, and the way in which Nazi aesthetics have persisted into the present.
 
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