Early writings, 1910-1917
By: Walter Benjamin ; translated by Howard Eiland and others
Contributors: Eiland, Howard
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780674049932
Subjects: Translations into English
Work titles: Selections
Description: In this addition to a project to bring to English-speaking audiences the work of Benjamin (1892-1940), an important German-Jewish philosopher and critic, this annotated translation compiles a selection of his shorter writings written between the ages of 17 and 25. Eiland (literature, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) traces these poems, short stories, and essays back to Benjamin's high school/German Youth Movement days. Following biographical and cultural context, the chronologically-arranged selections span his interests in creativity, educational reform, religion, "the metaphysics of youth," and the works of Holderlin, Balzac, and Dostoevsky, among others.
Notes: A selection of shorter works by Walter Benjamin, between the ages of seventeen and twenty-five.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from the German.