On Walter Benjamin – Critical Essays & Recollections: Critical Essays and Recollections (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) - Hardcover

Smith, Gene M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262192683 ISBN 13: 9780262192682

Publisher: MIT Press, 1988

Synopsis

Bringing together the best critical essays on one of the most fascinating literary figures of our time, this book immediately takes its place as a major source for Benjamin scholarship. Hannah Arendt called Walter Benjamin "the outstanding literary critic of the twentieth century" when she introduced him to English-language readers in 1968 with the selection of essays entitled Illuminations. Since then, his life and work have entered the domain of literary legend. The seventeen essays collected here cover the full range of Benjamin's interests, from hashish to Goethe to the modern city. They include important critical essays by Gershom Scholem and Jurgen Habermas as well as several moving and evocative recollections of Benjamin by friends and colleagues such as Theodor Adorno and Ernst Bloch. Gary Smith served as coeditor of the seventh volume of Benjamin's Gesammelte Schriften and prepared both the German and English editions of Benjamin's Moscow Diary.

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Review:

A publishing milestone.-Lynne Vieth, Philosophy and Literature

From the Back Cover:

The seventeen essays collected here cover the full range of Benjamin's interests, from hashish to Goethe to the modern city. They include important critical essays by Gershom Scholem and Jurgen Habermas as well as several moving and evocative recollections of Benjamin by friends and colleagues such as Theodor Adorno and Ernst Bloch.

About this edition

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0262192683
• ISBN 13: 9780262192682
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 340