Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings

by Walter Benjamin

Book Overview

Radical critic of a European civilization plunging into darkness, yet commemorator of the humane traditions of the old bourgeoisie--such was Walter Benjamin in the later 1930s. This volume, the third in a four-volume set, offers twenty-seven brilliant pieces, nineteen of which have never before been translated.

The centerpiece, A Berlin Childhood around 1900, marks the first appearance in English of one of the greatest German works...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674019814
• ISBN13: 9780674019812
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"