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The radio scripts for children, that is, offer an unexpected byway, on the eve of the apocalypse, into Benjamin's messianic preoccupations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA child's garden of deconstruction, these twenty-minute talks--from the perspective of childhood, before an invisible audience, on whatever happened to cross the critic's mind--are also by their very nature the closest we may ever come to a transcript of a psychoanalysis of Walter Benjamin. Particularly alive to that circumstance, Mehlman explores the themes of the radio broadcasts and brilliantly illuminates their hidden connections to Benjamin's life and work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis lucid analysis brings to light some of the least researched and understood aspects of Walter Benjamin's thought. It will interest and provoke literary theorists and philosophers of culture, as well as anyone who hopes to understand one of this century's most suggestive and perplexing critics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50405916311825,"sku":"CIN0226518655G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53591956816145,"sku":"GOR006567979","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0226518655.jpg?v=1751101782"},{"product_id":"adventures-in-the-french-trade-book-jeffrey-mehlman-9780804769624","title":"Adventures in the French Trade","description":"This memoir is less a chronicle of the life of a leading scholar and critic of matters French than a series of differently angled fragments, each with its attendant surprise, in what one commentator has called Jeffrey Mehlman's amour vache—his injured and occasionally injurious love—for France and the French. The reader will encounter masters of the art of reading in these pages, the exhilaration elicited by their achievements, and the unexpected (and occasionally unsettling) resonances those achievements have had in the author's life. With all its idiosyncrasies, Adventures in the French Trade depicts an intellectual generation in ways that will attract not only people who recall the heady days of the rise and reign of French theory but also those who do not. This provocative book should be of interest to students of intellectual history, literary criticism, Jewish studies, the history of American academia, and the genre of the memoir itself.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50823382204689,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50823383253265,"sku":"CIN0804769621G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52740175069457,"sku":"NIN9780804769624","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0804769621.jpg?v=1757413833"},{"product_id":"second-thoughts-book-jeffrey-mehlman-9781942254171","title":"Second Thoughts","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeorge Steiner's discussion of Jeffrey Mehlman's writing on Walter Benjamin gives the flavor of Mehlman's writing in\u0026gt;\u003cem\u003eSecond Thoughts\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe arch erudition and playful intelligence of Jeffrey Mehlman's concise jeu d'esprit, Walter Benjamin for Children, sparkle. Mehlman weaves a sequence of associative arabesques, 'intertextually imbricated, psychoanalytically informed, ' on the script for two radio programmes for children which Benjamin wrote during 1929-1930. Almost in the style of a magician, Professor Mehlman demonstrates the literally catastrophic substance of Benjamin's tales for children. With a scholastic acuity and wit resembling that of Benjamin himself, Mehlman teases out in the thematic rootedness of catastrophe and fraud the phantom presence of the motif of a 'false messianism' which flowers, nearly subliminally, in these seemingly innocent broadcasts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52140802572561,"sku":"NLS9781942254171","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53152410272017,"sku":"NIN9781942254171","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781942254171.jpg?v=1757575694"},{"product_id":"genealogies-of-the-text-book-jeffrey-mehlman-9780521032353","title":"Genealogies of the Text","description":"In this book, Jeffrey Mehlman dwells on the series of enigmas surrounding the Blanchot affair, in which one of the leading figures of contemporary French thought was shown to have been a prominent fascist journalist during the 1930s. Using this as a point of departure, Mehlman investigates the ideological and political connotations of similar literary material, shedding new light on the question of the usability of psychoanalysis for literary readings. The volume provides a provocative meditation on literature, ethics, and the experience of the French in World War I.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52148723974417,"sku":"NLS9780521032353","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780521032353.jpg?v=1757604439"},{"product_id":"genealogies-of-the-text-book-jeffrey-mehlman-9780521472135","title":"Genealogies of the Text","description":"In this book, Jeffrey Mehlman dwells on the series of enigmas surrounding the Blanchot affair, in which one of the leading figures of contemporary French thought was shown to have been a prominent fascist journalist during the 1930s. 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Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.  These four essays—on Blanchot, Lacan, Giraudoux, and Gide—have as their focus the barely imaginable coherence which the writings of four major contemporaries take on when read in the light of France's pre-World War II heritage of anti-Jewish thought. As the essays delve into such crucial topics as the inaugural silence in Blanchot's sense of literature, the \"style\" of Lacan, Giraudoux's relation to Racine, and the sexual politics of Gide, they engage a realm that at times seems—or seemed—anti-Semitic in its essence. Negotiating the complex ramifications of a lost tradition and the structure of its obliteration, Jeffrey Mehlman, in his conclusion, speculates on the emblematic value of Walter Benjamin's perpetually deferred \"journey to Palestine via France\" and its import for textual interpretation.  A French version of Mehlman's essay on Blanchot, published in Tel quel,spurred an impassioned journalistic debate in Paris and London. Broadening still further the context of that inquiry, Legacies  will prove a source of provocation and insight to all who are interested in the intellectual history of contemporary France.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52817173676305,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52817173938449,"sku":"CIN0816611785G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780816611782.jpg?v=1764272526"},{"product_id":"walter-benjamin-for-children-book-jeffrey-mehlman-9780226854502","title":"Walter Benjamin for Children","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow in paperback, an insightful analysis of the great theorist's most unusual work: a diverse collection of radio broadcasts for children. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn light of the legendary difficulty of Walter Benjamin's works, it is a strange and intriguing fact that from 1929 to 1933, the great critic and cultural theorist wrote--and broadcast--numerous scripts, on the order of fireside chats, for children. 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The second consists of two exemplary nineteenth-century novels on revolution: Victor Hugo's Quatrevingt-treize and Honoré de Balzac's Les Chouans.     Mehlman also explores the limits and opportunities of reading itself. Within a series of precise textual analyses, the reader will encounter Jean Laplanche's lectures on \"anxiety\" in Freud, Jacques Derrida's Glas, Georg Lukács’s study of Balzac’s “realism,\" and Michel Foucault's genealogy of prisons, Surveiller et punir. This volume is a working introduction to what may be termed French \"post-structuralism.\"   This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. 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