Walter Benjamin Esther Leslie Reaktion Books Αγγλικά Βιβλία Fiction Theatre

Walter Benjamin Critic Essayist Translator Philosopher - One Of The Twentieth Century’s Most Influential Intellectuals Continues To Intrigue Today His Work Stimulates A Profusion Responses In Form New Novels Operas Films And Artworks As Well Never-Abating Production Academic Texts This Biography First Be Written Over Decade Author Esther Leslie Uses Recently Published Entirety Benjamin\ S Correspondence Drawing On Numerous Diaries Autobiographical Works Order Provide Careful Account Circumstances Thoughts Had Many Interests: He Cherished Childhood Its Trappings Passion For Displacement Novelty Travel Toys Cities Trick-Books Ships All Are Given Due Attention Weaves Wayward Apperceptions Into Narrative Life Lived She Follows Travels From Berlin Capri Ibiza Riga Moscow Paris Finally Spanish Border Where Died 1940 Acknowledges Benjamin’s Thesis That Personal Histories Can Traced Only Context Social Milieus Economic Forces Technological Shifts Historical Events Seamlessly Interweaves Biographical Details With An Accessible Yet Concentrated Intellectual Development Colourful Portrait Capacious Intellect Trapped Increasingly Hostile Leslie’s Meticulous Political Geographical Cultural Journeying Challenges Populist Depiction Tragic Lonely Figure Restores Subject Proper Place Artistic Combatant Man Desirous Relishing Experience Σελίδες: 256 Διαστάσεις: 20X20Cm