WALTER BENJAMIN. A CRITICAL LIFE

Walter Benjamin is one of the twentieth century's most important intellectuals, and also one of its most elusive. His writings--mosa ics incorporating philosophy, literary criticism, Marxist analysis, and a syncretistic theology--defy simple categorization. And his mobile, often improvised existence has proven irresistible to mythologizers. His writing career moved from the brilliant esotericis m of his early writings through his emergence as a central voice in Weimar culture and on to the exile years, with its pioneering st udies of...[Read more]