{"product_id":"9781786603821","title":"Walter Benjamin and the Post-Kantian Tradition","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book examines the intellectual development of Walter Benjamin from a young Kantian idealist to Marxist materialist. Beginning with an examination of materialism and the often misunderstood standpoint of neo-Kantianism, it roots our understanding of Benjamin in the philosophical currents of his time without reducing him to a representative of one camp or another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalter Benjamin and the Post-Kantian Tradition engages with Benjamin as a theorist of a historical and philosophical problematic: a problematic that he finds manifested, in different philosophical guises, within empiricism, neo-Kantianism and German Romanticism. The book takes us through these manifestations systematically and, in doing so, it demonstrates how Benjamin moves from an aspiring idealist philosopher to a politically engaged Marxist critic without abandoning the theoretical project he develops early on.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield Publishers, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47019013439728,"sku":"9781786603821","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781786603821_p0.jpg?v=1763729678","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781786603821","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}