An absorbing selection of Walter Benjamin's personal manuscripts, images, and documents
Walter Benjamin 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 Illuminations, The Arcades Project, and The Origin of German Tragic Drama.
The most important German aesthetician and literary critic of the
twentieth century
*George Steiner*
Esther Leslie's translation reveals that no thought should go
un-noted
*Guardian*
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.
*Independent*
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.
*Frieze*
Charming & beautifully produced
*New Statesman*
Enchanting
*TLS*
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