{"product_id":"walter-benjamins-archive-isbn-9781784782030","title":"Walter Benjamin's Archive","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn absorbing selection of Walter Benjamin’s personal manuscripts, images, and documents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Intricate and intimate, \u003ci\u003eWalter Benjamin’s Archive\u003c\/i\u003e leads readers to the heart of his intellectual world, yielding a rich and detailed portrait of its author.“Esther Leslie’s translation reveals that no thought should go un-noted”  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Peter Conrad, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “This Archive is an object to treasure and has the aura of a reliquary, but Benjamin is no saint. Hidden within this small selection is a profaning giant whom we are only beginning to see.”  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Enchanting.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “The most important German aesthetician and literary critic of the twentieth century.”  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—George Steiner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Elegantly brings together the materials of Benjamin’s bequest and reminds us of what his friend Theodor Adorno rightly said was its greatest significance for subsequent thinking.”  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eFrieze\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Charming and beautifully produced.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Ray Monk, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWalter Benjamin\u003c\/b\u003e was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and is the author of \u003ci\u003eIlluminations\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Arcades Project\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Origin of German Tragic Drama.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEsther Leslie\u003c\/b\u003e is a lecturer in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, London. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eWalter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism\u003c\/i\u003e and sits on the editorial boards of \u003ci\u003eHistorical Materialism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRadical Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRevolutionary History\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305242022117,"sku":"NP9781784782030","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781784782030.jpg?v=1767743577","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/walter-benjamins-archive-isbn-9781784782030","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}