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Walter Benjamin´s Archive: Images, Texts, Signs
Walter Benjamin
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Description for Walter Benjamin´s Archive: Images, Texts, Signs
Paperback. .
The works of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin are a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps and fragments of everyday life, arts and dreams. This beautifully designed book gives an insight into Benjamin's habits of collecting and archiving through some of his most personal documents. From notebooks in which every conceivable space is covered with handwriting, and a heartfelt traveller's series of postcards, to a sequence of Benjamin's own photographs, and lists that include a collection of his son Stefan's early words and sentences, this wonderful collection testifies to Benjamin's complex and kaleidoscopic passion for the ephemera of ... Read more
The works of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin are a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps and fragments of everyday life, arts and dreams. This beautifully designed book gives an insight into Benjamin's habits of collecting and archiving through some of his most personal documents. From notebooks in which every conceivable space is covered with handwriting, and a heartfelt traveller's series of postcards, to a sequence of Benjamin's own photographs, and lists that include a collection of his son Stefan's early words and sentences, this wonderful collection testifies to Benjamin's complex and kaleidoscopic passion for the ephemera of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
697g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784782030
SKU
V9781784782030
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin was born in Germany in 1892 and died in Spain in 1940. His other books include Illuminations, The Arcades Project, and, with Verso, One-Way Street and The Origin of German Tragic Drama.
Reviews for Walter Benjamin´s Archive: Images, Texts, Signs
These frayed leavings testify to the nobility of Benjamin's undertaking: a lone mind battles against the death of culture and, in the process, almost forgets to fend off its own extinction. Guardian This Archive is an object to treasure and has the aura of a reliquary, but Benjamin is no saint. Hidden within this small selection is a ... Read more