Walter Benjamin : a critical life / Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings.
Walter Benjamin : a critical life / Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings.
Walter Benjamin : a critical life / Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.
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G 2014/4062
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English
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755 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
A Berlin childhood: 1892-1912 -- Metaphysics of youth: Berlin and Freiburg, 1912-1914 -- The concept of criticism: Berlin, Munich, and Bern, 1915-1919 -- Elective affinities: Berlin and Heidelberg, 1920-1922 -- Academic nomad: Frankfurt, Berlin, and Capri, 1923-1925 -- Weimar intellectual: Berlin an...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
2014.
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Summary
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 existence has proven irresistible to mythologizers. His writ...
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Walter Benjamin : a critical life / Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 719-733) and index.
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G 2014/4062
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74VKv5xlvoVO
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0674051866 (hbk.)
9780674051867 (hbk.)
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838/.91209 B
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991021718249702626
