WALTER BENJAMIN'S FIRST PHILOSOPHY

This book provides a study of Benjamins first philosophy in two senses: it focuses on his early philosophy as a source of insight into his later works, and it explores his thinking about the nature of truth, method, experience, the relation of body and mind, and the limits of human knowledge.While most attention is paid to Benjamins later works, his writings from roughly 1914-1925 explore p hilosophical themes and develop a critical method. This book argues that this early work founds a series of original and lasting que stions and ...[Read more]