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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.
This book is the first to consider the presence of history and the question of historical practice in Walter Benjamin's work.
These letters provide a lively view of Benjamin's life and thought from his days as a student to his melancholy experiences as an exile in Paris.
The essays collected here are all the work of noted Benjamin scholars, and pursue the themes central to the Theses.
Walter Benjamin
In a new Introduction written especially for this edition, Wolin discusses the unfinished Arcades Project, as well as recent tendencies in the reception of Benjamin's work and the relevance of his ideas to contemporary debates about ...
In the Language of Walter Benjamin
This collection of nine essays focuses on those writings of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) on literature and language that have a direct relevance to contemporary literary theory, notably his analyses of myth, violence, history, criticism, ...
John Pizer has dedicated a book-length study to the question of the origin. See his Toward a Theory of Radical Origin: Essays on Modern German Thought (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995). As we shall see later, ...
At once prickly and heartbroken, argumentative and loving, Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship is an absorbing memoir with the complication of character and motive of a novel.