An intellectual out of the ordinary: Walter Benjamin or surrealist thought

by Michael Löwy and Fabio Querido

The two essays that make up this little book shed light on one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century: Walter Benjamin. Born in Berlin in 1892, the son of assimilated petty-bourgeois Jewish parents, Benjamin became an intellectual out of the ordinary, a kind of prototype of the Mannheimian 'unattached' intellectual, devoid of institutional ties. This unstable situation would be decisive for the development of his fragmented,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 6207177940
• ISBN13: 9786207177943
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Our Knowledge Publishing
• Length: 52 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"