The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin 1910-1940
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. As he defends his changing ideas to admiring and skeptical friends-- poets, philosophers, and radicals-- we witness the restless self analysis of a...
show more
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. As he defends his changing ideas to admiring and skeptical friends-- poets, philosophers, and radicals-- we witness the restless self analysis of a creative mind for in advance of his own time.
show less
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780226042374 (0226042375)
Publish date: June 15th 1994
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Pages no: 674
Edition language: English