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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. Softcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> The difficulties do not stem from the presence or absence of ‘competence’. On the contrary these difficulties become clear once there is an attempt to avoid subordinating Benjamin’s work to moral or political frameworks where the latter are based on a refusal to allow the complexities and the nuances within his own work to emerge. What has to be maintained is the ‘left-handed blow’. In this context the act of ‘introduction’ has a specific meaning. To introduce is to stage. Rather than an Introduction assuming that what is brought into existence appears as though it were either untouched or already completed here other hands have been at work. Benjamin’s work has received specific forms of direction. With Walter Benjamin there had been a prevailing supposition. The choice had always been clear: Marxist rabbi or merely Marxist. As with all clear choices the clarity of both the structure and its content is merely apparent. What should in fact be at work is a radically different philosophical project one which will have already received another type of direction. (LL)