Walter Benjamin's Archive: Images, Texts, Signs

Benjamin, Walter; Marx, Ursula [Editor]; Schwarz, Gudrun [Editor]; Schwarz, Michael [Editor]; Wizisla, Erdmut [Editor];

ISBN 10: 1844671968 / ISBN 13: 9781844671960

Published by Verso, 2007

About this Item

Publisher: Verso, New York, 2007. FINE hardcover book in FINE mylar-protected dust-jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Pristine. As new. Unread.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Walter Benjamin's Archive: Images, Texts, Signs
• Publisher: Verso
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1844671968
• ISBN 13: 9781844671960
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Like New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Like New

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Synopsis

The works of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin are a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps and fragments of everyday life, arts and dreams. This beautifully designed book gives an insight into Benjamin s habits of collecting and archiving through some of his most personal documents. From notebooks in which every conceivable space is covered with handwriting and a heartfelt traveller s series of postcards, to a sequence of Benjamin s own photographs, and lists that include a collection of his son Stefan s early words and sentences, this wonderful collection testifies to Benjamin s complex and kaleidoscopic passion for the archive.

About the Author

WALTER BENJAMIN was born in Germany in 1892 and died in Spain in 1940. His other books include Illuminations and, with Verso, One-Way Street and The Origin of German Tragic Drama.