<p>Walter Benjamin is one of the twentieth century's most important intellectuals, and also one of its most elusive. His writings--mosaics incorporating philosophy, literary criticism, Marxist analysis, and a syncretistic theology--defy simple categorization. And his mobile, often improvised existen
Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life
β Scribed by Howard Eiland; Michael W. Jennings
- Publisher
- Belknap Press
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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<p>Walter Benjamin was perhaps the twentieth century's most elusive intellectual. His writings defy categorization, and his improvised existence has proven irresistible to mythologizers. In a major new biography, Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings present a comprehensive portrait of the man and his
<p>Walter Benjamin is one of the twentieth century's most important intellectuals, and also one of its most elusive. His writings--mosaics incorporating philosophy, literary criticism, Marxist analysis, and a syncretistic theology--defy simple categorization. And his mobile, often improvised existen
<p><span>The Philology of Life</span><span> retraces the outlines of the philological project developed by Walter Benjamin in his early essays on HΓΆlderlin, the Romantics, and Goethe. This philological program, McLaughlin shows, provides the methodological key to Benjaminβs work as a whole. <br><br>
<p><span>The Philology of Life</span><span> retraces the outlines of the philological project developed by Walter Benjamin in his early essays on HΓΆlderlin, the Romantics, and Goethe. This philological program, McLaughlin shows, provides the methodological key to Benjaminβs work as a whole. <br><br>