Walter Benjamin's Archive
Subtitle: images, texts, signs
By: translated by Esther Leslie ; edited by Ursula Marx, Gudrun Schwarz, Michael Schwarz, Erdmut Wizisla
Contributors: Walter Benjamin Archiv
Edition: First paperback edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781784782030
Subjects: German Authors; Archives
Work titles: Walter Benjamins Archive
Description: An absorbing selection of Walter Benjamin's personal manuscripts, images, and documents. The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art, and thought; a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps, and fragments of everyday life, art, and dreams. Throughout his life, Benjamin gathered together all kinds of artifacts, assortments of images, texts, and signs, themselves representing experiences, ideas, and hopes, each of which was enthusiastically logged, systematized, and analyzed by their author. In this way, Benjamin laid the groundwork for the salvaging of his own legacy. Intricate and intimate, Walter Benjamin's Archive leads readers to the heart of his intellectual world, yielding a rich and detailed portrait of its author.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.