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Series title
Critical South
The publication of this series is supported by the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Series editors: Natalia Brizuela and Leticia Sabsay
Leonor Arfuch, Memory and Autobiography
Aimé Césaire, Resolutely Black
Bolívar Echeverría, Modernity and “Whiteness”
Celso Furtado, The Myth of Economic Development
Eduardo Grüner, The Haitian Revolution
María Pia López, Not One Less
Pablo Oyarzun, Doing Justice
Néstor Perlongher, Plebeian Prose
Nelly Richard, Eruptions of Memory
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Ch’ixinakax Utxiwa
Tendayi Sithole, The Black Register
Doing Justice
Three Essays on Walter Benjamin
Pablo Oyarzun
Translated by Stephen Gingerich
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Excerpt from Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 2, 1927-1934, translated by Rodney Livingstone and Others, edited by Michael W. Jennings, Howard Eiland, and Gary Smith, Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Copyright © 1999 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
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Names: Oyarzun R., Pablo, 1950- author. | Gingerich, Stephen, translator.
Title: Doing justice : three essays on Walter Benjamin / Pablo Oyarzun ; translated by Stephen Gingerich.
Other titles: Tres ensayos sobre Benjamin. English
Description: Cambridge ; Medford, MA : Polity, [2020] | Series: Critical south | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “A leading Latin American thinker examines the work of Walter Benjamin and demonstrates its relevance for our understanding of justice”-- Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020005429 (print) | LCCN 2020005430 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509541973 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509541980 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509541997 (epub) | ISBN 9781509543779 (pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940--Political and social views. | Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940--Criticism and interpretation. | Justice in literature.
Classification: LCC PT2603.E455 Z79356 2020 (print) | LCC PT2603.E455 (ebook) | DDC 838/.91209--dc23
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Note on the Texts
The author has published translations into Spanish of many works by Walter Benjamin, including most of the work discussed in this volume. (These editions have been included