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Walter Benjamin's Archive: Images, Texts, Signs

By Michael Schwarz , Walter Benjamin; Ursula Marx , Gudrun Schwarz , Erdmut Wizisla (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Verso
Year
2015
ISBN
1784782033, 9781784782030
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
46 MB (48050017 bytes)
Pages
320\0
Time added
2016-02-05 15:56:39
Memoirs Biographies Philosophers Professionals Aca

Description

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.

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