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2026
Book review: Charles, M. (2026). Walter Benjamin: The Pearl Diver: by Peter E. Gordon, Jewish Lives Series, New Haven, NJ, Yale University Press, 2026, 224pp., £16.99 (hardback), ISBN 9780300216868 Charles, M. 2026. Book review: Charles, M. (2026). Walter Benjamin: The Pearl Diver: by Peter E. Gordon, Jewish Lives Series, New Haven, NJ, Yale University Press, 2026, 224pp., £16.99 (hardback), ISBN 9780300216868. History of European Ideas. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2026.2701105 Online educational resource Book chapter
2025
Walter Benjamin, Antifascism and Mimetic Education Charles, M. 2025. Walter Benjamin, Antifascism and Mimetic Education. in: Ross, N. (ed.) The Palgrave Walter Benjamin Handbook Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 23-47
2018
Erziehung: the critical theory of education and counter-education Charles, M. 2018. Erziehung: the critical theory of education and counter-education. in: Best, B., Bonefeld, W. and O'Kane, C. (ed.) The Sage Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory London Sage. pp. 988-1005
2013
Walter Benjamin and the Inhumanities: Towards a Pedagogical Anti-Nietzscheanism Charles, M. 2013. Walter Benjamin and the Inhumanities: Towards a Pedagogical Anti-Nietzscheanism. in: Pedagogies of Disaster Brooklyn, New York Punctum Books. pp. 331-341 Article
2018
Pedagogy as “Cryptic Politics”: Benjamin, Nietzsche, and the End of Education Charles, M. 2018. Pedagogy as “Cryptic Politics”: Benjamin, Nietzsche, and the End of Education. boundary 2: an international journal of literature and culture . 45 (2), pp. 35-62. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-4381008
2016
Towards a Critique of Educative Violence: Walter Benjamin and ‘Second Education’ Charles, M. 2016. Towards a Critique of Educative Violence: Walter Benjamin and ‘Second Education’. Pedagogy, Culture and Society. 24 (4), pp. 525-536. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2016.1210202
2016
Being Taught by Biesta Charles, M. 2016. Being Taught by Biesta. Pedagogy, Culture & Society. 24 (3), pp. 473-479. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2016.1160672
2013
On the conservatism of post-Jungian criticism: competing concepts of the symbol in Freud, Jung and Walter Benjamin Charles, M. 2013. On the conservatism of post-Jungian criticism: competing concepts of the symbol in Freud, Jung and Walter Benjamin. International Journal of Jungian Studies. 5 (2), pp. 120-139. https://doi.org/10.1080/19409052.2012.671184
2012
Lines in class: The ongoing attack on mass education in England Charles, M. 2012. Lines in class: The ongoing attack on mass education in England. Radical Philosophy. 176, pp. 38-45.
2012
Faust on film: Walter Benjamin and the cinematic ontology of Goethe's Faust 2 Charles, M. 2012. Faust on film: Walter Benjamin and the cinematic ontology of Goethe's Faust 2. Radical Philosophy. 172, pp. 19-29.
2011
Philosophy for children Charles, M. 2011. Philosophy for children. Radical Philosophy. 170, pp. 36-45.
2010
Utopia and its Discontents: Dreams of Catastrophe and the End of 'the End of History' Charles, M. 2010. Utopia and its Discontents: Dreams of Catastrophe and the End of 'the End of History'. Studies in Social and Political Thought. 18, pp. 29-40.
2010
From fiasco to carnival: the end of philosophy at Middlesex? Charles, M. 2010. From fiasco to carnival: the end of philosophy at Middlesex? Radical Philosophy. 162, pp. 40-45.
2010
Imaginative mislocation Hiroshima's Genbaku Dome, ground zero of the twentieth century Charles, M. 2010. Imaginative mislocation Hiroshima's Genbaku Dome, ground zero of the twentieth century. Radical Philosophy. 162, pp. 18-30.
2009
Celebrity come Communism Charles, M. 2009. Celebrity come Communism. Radical Philosophy. 155, pp. 65-68.
2009
Celebrity come communism: 'On the Idea of Communism', Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, London, 13-15 March 2009 Charles, M. 2009. Celebrity come communism: 'On the Idea of Communism', Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, London, 13-15 March 2009. Radical Philosophy. 155, pp. 64-69.
