Walter BenjaminDrawing upon a wealth of journal writings and personal correspondence, Esther Leslie presents a uniquely intimate portrait of one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century, Walter Benjamin. She sets his life in the context of his middle-class upbringing; explores the social, political, and economic upheaval in Germany during and after World War I; and recounts Benjamin’s eccentric love of toys, trick-books, travel, and ships. From the Frankfurt School and his influential friendships with Theodore Adorno, Gershom Scholem, and Bertolt Brecht, to his travels across Europe, Walter Benjamin traces out the roots of Benjamin’s groundbreaking writings and their far-reaching impact in his own time. Leslie argues that Benjamin’s life challenges the stereotypical narrative of the tragic and lonely intellectual figure—instead positioning him as a man who relished the fierce combat of competing theories and ideas. Closing with his death at the Spanish-French border in a desperate flight from the Nazis and Stalin, Walter Benjamin is a concise and concentrated account of a capacious intellect trapped by hostile circumstances. |
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1 Benjamin's Remnants Walter Benjamin left many remnants. There are the
books ... Benjamin wrote consciously for the future, constructing from early on
archives of his writings, in published, manuscript, draft and photocopied form.
Benjamin ...
1 Benjamin's Remnants Walter Benjamin left many remnants. There are the
books ... Benjamin wrote consciously for the future, constructing from early on
archives of his writings, in published, manuscript, draft and photocopied form.
Benjamin ...
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He archived scraps of paper, sketches of essays jotted on the back of library book
return reminders, diagrams in the form of compass roses and co-ordinate planes
that plotted ideas in relation to each other. Even the most ephemeral objects ...
He archived scraps of paper, sketches of essays jotted on the back of library book
return reminders, diagrams in the form of compass roses and co-ordinate planes
that plotted ideas in relation to each other. Even the most ephemeral objects ...
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The uses of the duplicate and dispersed archives was made clear on 31 May
1933, when he wrote to Gershom Scholem with the request that he arrange the
replacement of some damaged papers in Benjamin's archive: But now that
moment ...
The uses of the duplicate and dispersed archives was made clear on 31 May
1933, when he wrote to Gershom Scholem with the request that he arrange the
replacement of some damaged papers in Benjamin's archive: But now that
moment ...
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two other parts: a Frankfurt archive of the materials that Benjamin had with him on
his flight from Paris which found their way to Adorno to join the manuscripts,
letters and documents held by the Institute for Social Research, and a Paris
archive ...
two other parts: a Frankfurt archive of the materials that Benjamin had with him on
his flight from Paris which found their way to Adorno to join the manuscripts,
letters and documents held by the Institute for Social Research, and a Paris
archive ...
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... issued from 1972 to 1999, with its expansive scholarly apparatus, to the
volume that appeared in 2006 under the title Walter Benjamins Archive, with its
commented reproductions of the most curious survivals – postcards, doodles and
jokes, ...
... issued from 1972 to 1999, with its expansive scholarly apparatus, to the
volume that appeared in 2006 under the title Walter Benjamins Archive, with its
commented reproductions of the most curious survivals – postcards, doodles and
jokes, ...
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Making a Mark 191724 | |
Books after Books 19259 | |
Man of Letters 193032 | |
Noms de Plume 19337 | |
Writers Block 193840 | |
Afterwords | |
References | |
Select Bibliography Photo Acknowledgements | |
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