Walter Benjamin: An Intellectual Biography

by Bernd Witte

Book Overview

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was the quintessential European intellectual between the two world wars. Historian, philosopher, literary critic, student of language and culture, and journalist, the independent scholar was forever trying to define himself and his time as products of a tradition in crisis.

In a very real sense, Benjamin's life and work were one?a chronicle of the modern European intellectual and mirror of an era. Bernd Witte's interpretive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081432018X
• ISBN13: 9780814320181
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"