Walter Benjamin [Kindle Edition] Author: Howard Eiland | Language: English | ISBN:
B00GG0CAB0 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Download Walter Benjamin [Kindle Edition] Epub Free for everyone book mediafire, rapishare, and mirror link 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 times, as well as extensive commentary on his work. Books with free ebook downloads available Walter Benjamin [Kindle Edition] Epub Free
- File Size: 3040 KB
- Print Length: 766 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0674051866
- Publisher: Harvard University Press (January 20, 2014)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00GG0CAB0
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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This is a compelling, well-written, and accessible biography of an uncompromising and enigmatic writer and public intellectual.
I have been seeking such a literary biography to help me get a better handle on the influences and background to Benjamin's works such as Critique of Violence and the Arcades Project. The book provides this and much more, drawing judiciously on a multitude of sources, including his decades-long, sometimes prickly correspondence with dear friends. And what reader wouldn't be fascinated by his life? Without giving anything away, I can only say this biography offers surprising details and welcome nuances to the basic outline that many readers may already know. I think I will return to this book again and again in the coming years.
By Mlagace
walter benjamin remains one of the 20th centurys major literary critical figures... certainly one with both credential beyond the academy, and a life ended tragically enough to insure an enduring post mortem fame. the book is a fine one, and well detailed. the benjamin who emerges is initially the bookish son of a successful businessman. the father and the son soon seperate over benjamin's inability to get a job- and benjamin, as the nazi's come to power, begins a life of nomadic penury,marked by his amazing literary output, and which will end with his suicide at port bau in spain, where he was led by the extraordinary lisa fittko, following a harrowing climb into spain from france.
warren leming
By warrren leming
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