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Benjamin Walter

Walter Benjamin was born on July 15, 1892 to a German-Jewish family in Berlin. He was educated at the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg and the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin. An essay on Goethe's Elective Affinities published in 1924 earned him swift recognition but he struggled to find a position to support himself and build on its success. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Benjamin fled to Paris and became a prominent critic of Hitler's regime. During this period he worked on his immense study of 19th century Parisian life known as The Arcades Project (which was posthumously published in unfinished form).Following the Nazi invasion of France Benjamin attempted to escape to the United States where a visa had been obtained for him.Trying to get through to neutral Portugal, Benjamin was prevented from crossing the Spanish border and committed suicide on September 27 1940.

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On Goethe
On Goethe contains the full range of Walter Benjamin's reflections on the central figure in modern G...
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Unpacking My Library: Benjamin Walter (Penguin Archive)
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books   ‘Every sort of passion verges on chaos,...
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Correspondence 1930-1940
‘We must see to it that we put the best of ourselves in our letters; for there is nothing to suggest...
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Radio Benjamin
“The German critic was not only a theorist of the media – he was a gifted broadcaster as well.” – ...
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Aesthetics and Politics
An intense and lively debate on literature and art between thinkers who became some of the great fig...
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Walter Benjamin's Archive: Images, Texts, Signs
An absorbing selection of Walter Benjamin’s personal manuscripts, images, and documents.The work of...
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The Storyteller: Tales out of Loneliness
This is the first major collection of short stories from the legendary German–Jewish critic and phil...
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One-Way Street
One-Way Street is a thoroughfare unlike anything else in literature—by turns exhilarating and bewild...
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