Walter Benjamin : a critical life /
By: Eiland, Howard.
Contributor(s): Jennings, Michael William.
Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014Description: 755 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780674970779; 9780674970779:; 0674970772.Subject(s): Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 | Authors, German -- 20th century -- BiographyDDC classification: 838.09 EILItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 838.09 EIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0062583 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 719-733) and index.
A Berlin childhood: 1892-1912 -- Metaphysics of youth: Berlin and Freiburg, 1912-1914 -- The concept of criticism: Berlin, Munich, and Bern, 1915-1919 -- Elective affinities: Berlin and Heidelberg, 1920-1922 -- Academic nomad: Frankfurt, Berlin, and Italy, 1923-1926 -- Weimar intellectual: Berlin and Moscow, 1925-1928 -- The destructive character: Berlin, Paris, and Ibiza, 1929-1932 -- Exile: Paris and Ibiza, 1933-1934 -- The Parisian arcades: Paris, San Remo, and Skovsbostrand, 1935-1937 -- Baudelaire and the streets of Paris: Paris, San Remo, and Skovsbostrand, 1938-1940 -- The angel of history: Paris, Nevers, Marseilles, and Port Bou, 1939-1940.
Walter Benjamin is one of the 20th century's most important intellectuals, and also one of its most elusive. His writings defy simple categorisation, and his mobile, often improvised existence has proven irresistible to mythologisers. Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings make available a rich store of information which augments and corrects the record of an extraordinary life.