Walter Benjamin or towards a revolutionary criticism

This momentous study of Benjamin´s critical practice marks a sea change in Eagleton´s thought. As the subtitle suggests, its goal is not merely to contemplate Benjamin´s approach to language, history, and art but to chart a dynamic new course for contemporary socialist criticism. To do this, Eagleton brushes Benjamin´s Trauerspiel against seventeenth-century British literature, tests his concept of the "aura" against Freud and Lacan, and undertakes his most sustained engagement with Derrida and the political crossroads of deconstruction.