Walter Benjamin Eiland Lecturer in Literature Howard Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Walter Benjamin Eiland Lecturer in Literature Howard Massachusetts Institute of Technology Walter Benjamin is one of the twentieth century's most important intellectuals, and also one of its most…
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Walter Benjamin Eiland Lecturer in Literature Howard Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Walter Benjamin is one of the twentieth century's most important intellectuals, and also one of its most elusive. And his mobile, often improvised existence has proven irresistible to mythologizers. His writings--mosaics incorporating philosophy, literary criticism, Marxist analysis, and a syncretistic theology--defy simple categorization.
That career was played out amid some of the most catastrophic decades of modern European history: the horror of the First World War, the turbulence of the Weimar Republic, and the lengthening shadow of fascism. His writing career moved from the brilliant esotericism of his early writings through his emergence as a central voice in Weimar culture and on to the exile years, with its pioneering studies of modern media and the rise of urban commodity capitalism in Paris. Now, a major new biography from two of the world's foremost Benjamin scholars