Esther Leslie

Esther Leslie is a lecturer in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, London. She is the author of Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism and sits on the editorial boards of Historical Materialism, Radical Philosophy and Revolutionary History.

Books by Esther Leslie

  1. Book CoverA Defence of History and Class Consciousness: Tailism and the Dialectic


    Thought to have been destroyed until recently discovered in Moscow's CPSU archives, this polemic by the 'philosopher of the October Revolution' was written in 1923 in response to Stalin's onslaught on his earlier History and Class Consciousness.More

  2. Book CoverHollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-Garde


    Brings to light the links between animation, avant-garde art and modernist criticism.More

  3. Book CoverThe Philistine Controversy


    Dave Beech and John Roberts develop what they call a 'counter-intuitive' notion of the philistine, with insights on cultural division and exclusion.More

  4. Book CoverRestless Cities


    Leading intellectuals reimagine the city as a site of ceaseless change and motion.More

  5. Book CoverWalter Benjamin's Archive: Images, Texts, Signs


    An absorbing selection of Walter Benjamin's personal manuscripts, images, and documents.More