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Benjamin, Walter

 
9781844671960: Walter Benjamin's Archive: Images, Texts, Signs
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ISBN 10: 1844671968 ISBN 13: 9781844671960
Editorial: Verso Books, 2007

Sinopsis

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. It comprises myriad smaller archives, in which Benjamin gathered together all kinds of artefacts, 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 them, Benjamin laid the groundwork for the salvaging of his own legacy.
This unique book, produced in association with the Benjamin Archive, delves into these archives. They include carefully laid-out manuscripts; photograps of a home with luxurious furniture, arcades, Russian toys; picture postcards from Tuscany and the Balearics; meticulous and unconventional registers, card indexes and catalogs; notebooks, in which every single square centimeter is covered; a collation of his son's first words and sentences; riddles and enigmatic Sibyls. Everything here is subtly interlinked with everything else.
Intricate and intimate, Walter Benjamin's Archive leads right into the core of his work, yielding a rich and detailed portrait of its author.

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Acerca de los autores

Walter Benjamin was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and is the author of Illuminations, The Arcades Project, and The Origin of German Tragic Drama.

Erdmut Wizisla is the director of the Bertolt Brecht Archive in Berlin, which houses some 200,000 of Brecht's manuscripts and his personal library, as well as the Walter Benjamin Archives at the Akademie der Künste Berlin. He is currently an Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Humboldt University of Berlin.

Michael Schwartz is Distinguished Teaching Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Stony Brook University.

Esther Leslie is a lecturer in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, London. She is the author of Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism and sits on the editorial boards of Historical Materialism, Radical Philosophy and Revolutionary History.

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Editorial
Verso Books
Año de publicación
2007
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1844671968
ISBN 13 
9781844671960
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
311
Editor
Wizisla Erdmut, Schwarz Gudrun, Schwartz Michael, Marx Ursula
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