Unpacking My Library: Benjamin Walter (Penguin Archive) - Softcover

Benjamin, Walter

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ISBN 10: 0241747260 ISBN 13: 9780241747261

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2025

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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books

‘Every sort of passion verges on chaos, I know, but what the collecting passion verges on is a chaos of memories.’

From intimate musings on his book collection, to a dream-like trip through the bustling streets of Marseille, each of these essays offers a compelling journey into the mind of one of the twentieth century’s most influential philosophers.

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Walter Benjamin was born on July 15, 1892 to a German-Jewish family in Berlin. He was educated at the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg and the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin. An essay on Goethe's Elective Affinities published in 1924 earned him swift recognition but he struggled to find a position to support himself and build on its success. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Benjamin fled to Paris and became a prominent critic of Hitler's regime. During this period he worked on his immense study of 19th century Parisian life known as The Arcades Project (which was posthumously published in unfinished form).Following the Nazi invasion of France Benjamin attempted to escape to the United States where a visa had been obtained for him.Trying to get through to neutral Portugal, Benjamin was prevented from crossing the Spanish border and committed suicide on September 27 1940.

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From intimate musings on his book collection, to a dream-like trip through the bustling streets of Marseille, each of these essays offers a compelling journey into the mind of one of the twentieth century’s most influential philosophers.

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• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0241747260
• ISBN 13: 9780241747261
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96
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