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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A life, shortened but intensely lived, is reconstructable from these myriad
materials: from the Gesammelte Schriften, issued from 1972 to 1999, with its
expansive scholarly apparatus, to the volume that appeared in 2006 under the
title Walter ...
A life, shortened but intensely lived, is reconstructable from these myriad
materials: from the Gesammelte Schriften, issued from 1972 to 1999, with its
expansive scholarly apparatus, to the volume that appeared in 2006 under the
title Walter ...
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Benjamin as child – at least as that child portrayed in the memory of a forty-year-
old man who had long lived in precarious circumstances, without ongoing
employment – inhabited a world rich in sensuous experience. He was drawn as
much ...
Benjamin as child – at least as that child portrayed in the memory of a forty-year-
old man who had long lived in precarious circumstances, without ongoing
employment – inhabited a world rich in sensuous experience. He was drawn as
much ...
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... in the retrospection, 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.
... in the retrospection, 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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The two weeks were lived intensely, 'such as only a child lives'. He was out and
about all day, almost never reaching bed before 2 am. Mornings were spent at
the Louvre, Versailles, Fontainebleau and the Bois de Boulogne. In the
afternoons ...
The two weeks were lived intensely, 'such as only a child lives'. He was out and
about all day, almost never reaching bed before 2 am. Mornings were spent at
the Louvre, Versailles, Fontainebleau and the Bois de Boulogne. In the
afternoons ...
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Inhoudsopgave
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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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Walter Benjamin Critical Lives |
| Auteur | Esther Leslie |
| Uitgever | Reaktion Books, 2008 |
| ISBN | 1861896034, 9781861896032 |
| Lengte | 192 pagina's |
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