Description
Product ID: | 9781784782030 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Walter Benjamin's Archive |
Subtitle: | Images, Texts, Signs |
Authors: | Author: Walter Benjamin, Esther Leslie, Ursula Marx, Michael Schwartz, Gudrun Schwarz, Erdmut Wizisla |
Page Count: | 320 |
Subjects: | Autobiography: writers, Autobiography: literary, Memoirs, Memoirs |
Description: | Select Guide Rating An absorbing and beautifully presented selection of Walter Benjamin's never before seen personal manuscripts, images, and documents from his own collection 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. |
Imprint Name: | Verso Books |
Publisher Name: | Verso Books |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2015-09-15 |