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. |
Vanuit het boek
Resultaten 6-10 van 22
Pagina
... youth. His pseudonym was Ardor. In March 1911, with the magazine now subtitled 'Unified Magazines of the Youth', Benjamin published 'Sleeping Beauty'.16 The essay acknowledged the age as one of Socialism, Women's Liberation ...
... youth. His pseudonym was Ardor. In March 1911, with the magazine now subtitled 'Unified Magazines of the Youth', Benjamin published 'Sleeping Beauty'.16 The essay acknowledged the age as one of Socialism, Women's Liberation ...
Pagina
... youth movement, Blau-Weiss, which, in similar fashion to the other youth groupings, undertook hikes and outings through the German countryside. Tuchler spoke of Zionism, while Benjamin tried to persuade him of the correctness of his ...
... youth movement, Blau-Weiss, which, in similar fashion to the other youth groupings, undertook hikes and outings through the German countryside. Tuchler spoke of Zionism, while Benjamin tried to persuade him of the correctness of his ...
Pagina
... Youth Culture by issuing a brochure of essays criticizing contemporary schooling, addressing topics such as teaching and assessment and relationships between teachers and pupils, schools and idealism.27 It would include letters from ...
... Youth Culture by issuing a brochure of essays criticizing contemporary schooling, addressing topics such as teaching and assessment and relationships between teachers and pupils, schools and idealism.27 It would include letters from ...
Pagina
... Youth Culture. Over the next few months these ideas did indeed spread across a number of university pedagogic groups. Respite came in travel. In 1913 Benjamin took trips to the Black Forest, the Tirol, Breslau and Weimar and, at Whitsun ...
... Youth Culture. Over the next few months these ideas did indeed spread across a number of university pedagogic groups. Respite came in travel. In 1913 Benjamin took trips to the Black Forest, the Tirol, Breslau and Weimar and, at Whitsun ...
Pagina
... youth, ideals, hopes, woman – only to find it was all illusion, and they despised youth because it reminded them of the dreams they once shared and in which they lost faith. Such adults find no meaning in the world, no 'inner ...
... youth, ideals, hopes, woman – only to find it was all illusion, and they despised youth because it reminded them of the dreams they once shared and in which they lost faith. Such adults find no meaning in the world, no 'inner ...
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 | |
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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