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

Benjamin, Walter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784782033 ISBN 13: 9781784782030

Publisher: Verso, 2015

Synopsis

An absorbing selection of Walter Benjamin’s personal manuscripts, images, and documents

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.

About this title

About the Author

Walter Benjamin was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and is the author of Illuminations, The Arcades Project, and The Origin of German Tragic Drama.

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Verso
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784782033
• ISBN 13: 9781784782030
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Marx Ursula, Schwarz Gudrun, Schwarz Michael, Wizisla Erdmut