Walter Benjamin's Archive: Images, Texts, Signs

Benjamin, Walter

ISBN 10: 1784782033 / ISBN 13: 9781784782030

Published by Verso, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Walter Benjamin's Archive: Images, Texts, Signs
• Publisher: Verso
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784782033
• ISBN 13: 9781784782030
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.