Walter Benjamin’s Archive: Images, Texts, Signs - Softcover

Benjamin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784782033 ISBN 13: 9781784782030

Verlag: Verso, 2015

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The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art, and thought; a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps, and fragments of everyday life, art, and dreams. Throughout his life, Benjamin gathered together all kinds of artifacts, assortments of images, texts, and signs, themselves representing experiences, ideas, and hopes, each of which was enthusiastically logged, systematized, and analyzed by their author. In this way, Benjamin laid the groundwork for the salvaging of his own legacy. Intricate and intimate, Walter Benjamin’s Archive leads readers to the heart of his intellectual world, yielding a rich and detailed portrait of its author.

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Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator and philosopher. He was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and is the author of Illuminations, The Arcades Project, and The Origin of German Tragic Drama. In 1940, he was in Spain, fleeing the Nazis and en route to the United States, when Franco's government cancelled his visa. Expecting repatriation, he took his own life.

Erdmut Wizisla is the director of the Walter Benjamin Archives at the Akademie der Künste Berlin. He is currently an Honorary Professor at the Faculty of German Literature at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

Michael Schwartz is Distinguished Teaching Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Stony Brook University.

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Verso
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1784782033
• ISBN 13: 9781784782030
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
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