Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life by Eiland, Howard

Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life

Walter Benjamin is one of the twentieth century's most important intellectuals, and also one of its most...
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Author: Howard Eiland
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Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life by Eiland, Howard

Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life

$108.35

Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life

$108.35
Author: Howard Eiland
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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 writing career moved from the brilliant esotericism of his early writings through his emergence as a central voice in Weimar culture and on to the exile years, with its pioneering studies of modern media and the rise of urban commodity capitalism in Paris. That career was played out amid some of the most catastrophic decades of modern European history: the horror of the First World War, the turbulence of the Weimar Republic, and the lengthening shadow of fascism. Now, a major new biography from two of the world's foremost Benjamin scholars reaches beyond the mosaic and the mythical to present this intriguing figure in full.

Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings make available for the first time a rich store of information which augments and corrects the record of an extraordinary life. They offer a comprehensive portrait of Benjamin and his times as well as extensive commentaries on his major works, including "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility," the essays on Baudelaire, and the great study of the German Trauerspiel. Sure to become the standard reference biography of this seminal thinker, Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life will prove a source of inexhaustible interest for Benjamin scholars and novices alike.

Author: Howard Eiland, Michael W. Jennings
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 01/20/2014
Pages: 755
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.85lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.20w x 2.20d
ISBN: 9780674051867


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/01/2013 pg. 92
Publishers Weekly 11/11/2013
New York Review of Books 07/10/2014 pg. 34
New Yorker (The) 09/15/2014 pg. 88

About the Author
Jennings, Michael W.: - Michael W. Jennings is Class of 1900 Professor of Modern Languages at Princeton University.Eiland, Howard: - Howard Eiland is an editor and translator of Benjamin's writings.

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