Walter Benjamin's Archive

Images, Texts, Signs

By: Walter Benjamin, Esther Leslie (Translator), Ursula Marx (Editor), Michael Schwartz (Editor), Gudrun Schwarz (Editor)

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Paperback | 15 September 2015 | Edition Number 1

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320 Pages

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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.

Industry Reviews

"These frayed leavings testify to the nobility of Benjamin's undertaking: a lone mind battles against the death of culture and, in the process, almost forgets to fend off its own extinction." Guardian "This Archive is an object to treasure and has the aura of a reliquary, but Benjamin is no saint. Hidden within this small selection is a profaning giant whom we are only beginning to see." Independent "The most important German aesthetician and literary critic of the twentieth century" George Steiner "Charming & beautifully produced" Ray Monk, New Statesman "Enchanting" TLS

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