Walter Benjamin's Archive
Synopsis
An absorbing selection of Walter Benjamin's personal manuscripts, images, and documents The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art, and thought; a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps, and fragments of everyday life, art, and dreams. Throughout his life, Benjamin gathered together all kinds of artifacts, assortments of images, texts, and signs, themselves representing experiences, ideas, and hopes, each of which was enthusiastically logged, systematized, and analyzed by their author. In this way, Benjamin laid the groundwork for the salvaging of his own legacy. Intricate and intimate, Walter Benjamin's Archive leads readers to the heart of his intellectual world, yielding a rich and detailed portrait of its author.From the Trade Paperback edition.gmatic Sibyls. Everything here is subtly interlinked with everything else.Intricate and intimate, Walter Benjamin's Archive leads right into the core of his work, yielding a rich and detailed portrait of its author.From the Hardcover edition.
- Hakimiliki:
- 2015 Esther Leslie
Book Details
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- ISBN-13:
- 9781784782054
- Publisher:
- Verso Books
- Date of Addition:
- 2015-09-15T09:22:04Z
- Lugha:
- English
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- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.