Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography

by Gerhard Richter

Book Overview

Although Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is considered one of the most significant writers and theorists in twentieth-century Western culture, his enigmatic sense of the political has eluded definition. His later work in particular stages a perpetual but little understood confrontation with German fascism.

Gerhard Richter shows that Benjamin's engagement with the political cannot be understood in terms of unified concepts and fully deducible...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814330835
• ISBN13: 9780814330838
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"