Walter BenjaminReaktion Books, 15 jan 2008 - 192 pagina's Drawing 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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... experiences impacts indelibly on mind and memory. He recorded the accoutrements of life in Berlin in 1900: the ... experience and diverted into books in the quest for adventure. One vignette from his Berlin childhood, 'Boys' Books ...
... experiences impacts indelibly on mind and memory. He recorded the accoutrements of life in Berlin in 1900: the ... experience and diverted into books in the quest for adventure. One vignette from his Berlin childhood, 'Boys' Books ...
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... experience. He was drawn as much to the luxurious objects of the bourgeois home as to its unwanted clutter. He recalled being exposed to the torrential floods of rain on a completely deserted stretch of road, as well as sitting ...
... experience. He was drawn as much to the luxurious objects of the bourgeois home as to its unwanted clutter. He recalled being exposed to the torrential floods of rain on a completely deserted stretch of road, as well as sitting ...
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... experience at the Kaiser-Friedrich school, which left its residue in unpleasantly recalled images of selfish and smelly bourgeois boys thrusting themselves up and down stairwells, their sporty and energetic bodies clumping into a massed ...
... experience at the Kaiser-Friedrich school, which left its residue in unpleasantly recalled images of selfish and smelly bourgeois boys thrusting themselves up and down stairwells, their sporty and energetic bodies clumping into a massed ...
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... the writing up of experience. On his return in the summer of 1912 he. A postcard of Wengen in Switzerland, location of a Benjamin family holiday in 1911. Muri in Switzerland, where Benjamin and Scholem lived for while.
... the writing up of experience. On his return in the summer of 1912 he. A postcard of Wengen in Switzerland, location of a Benjamin family holiday in 1911. Muri in Switzerland, where Benjamin and Scholem lived for while.
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... experience. He voiced his frustrations about university to Blumenthal, mocking scholarship as a mooing cow to which students were compelled to listen in lecture theatres.22 In August, he took a trip to Stolpmünde on the Baltic coast, to ...
... experience. He voiced his frustrations about university to Blumenthal, mocking scholarship as a mooing cow to which students were compelled to listen in lecture theatres.22 In August, he took a trip to Stolpmünde on the Baltic coast, to ...
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Making a Mark 191724 | |
Books after Books 19259 | |
Man of Letters 193032 | |
Noms de Plume 19337 | |
Writers Block 193840 | |
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