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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In addition to this public output, there is a mass of more intimate materials.
Benjamin was a prolific letter-writer, cramming his pages with details of his life,
his circumstances and his thoughts, if only because, in the many years of exile
and ...
In addition to this public output, there is a mass of more intimate materials.
Benjamin was a prolific letter-writer, cramming his pages with details of his life,
his circumstances and his thoughts, if only because, in the many years of exile
and ...
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... few meager fruits from the tree of conscientiousness, whose roots are to be
found in my heart and whose leaves are in your archive.5 Some of this mass of
material was lost in the exile years, along with most of his cherished book
collection.
... few meager fruits from the tree of conscientiousness, whose roots are to be
found in my heart and whose leaves are in your archive.5 Some of this mass of
material was lost in the exile years, along with most of his cherished book
collection.
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This book has benefited from the extraordinary efforts that German archivists
have made to not only collate and reproduce as much material as exists, but also
to furnish it with finely detailed commentary, elucidation and crossreferences. A
life ...
This book has benefited from the extraordinary efforts that German archivists
have made to not only collate and reproduce as much material as exists, but also
to furnish it with finely detailed commentary, elucidation and crossreferences. A
life ...
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... speculator, investing in firms such as a medical supplier, a wine merchant and
a skating rink. That Benjamin's upbringing was comfortable in material terms is
apparent from his own writings, the memories of a Berlin childhood that Benjamin
...
... speculator, investing in firms such as a medical supplier, a wine merchant and
a skating rink. That Benjamin's upbringing was comfortable in material terms is
apparent from his own writings, the memories of a Berlin childhood that Benjamin
...
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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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Adorno Adrienne Monnier appeared April Arcades Project aura Baroque Baudelaire begraben lag Benjamin left Benjamin told Benjamin wrote Berlin Berlin Childhood Berlin Chronicle Bloch bourgeois Brecht Childhood around 1900 children’s collection Communist concept critical cultural dialectical diary Dora epic theatre Ernst essay experience fascism film flâneur France Frankfurter Zeitung French friends Fuchs German graphology Gretel Karplus Habilitation hashish Hessel hoped Horkheimer Ibiza Institute Institute’s intellectual Jewish Jews journal June Kafka Kracauer Lacis language lecture letter literary lived Lukács Marxist masses material modern montage Moscow noted novel once One-way Street Paris past philosophical photographs play political Port Bou postcard present progress published radio reading reflection reproduction revolutionary San Remo Schoen Siegfried Kracauer social Stefan Stefan George storyteller Surrealists technological theatre theory thought told Scholem translation Walter Benjamin Walter Benjamins Archive Werner Kraft words writing Wyneken youth
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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