Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings

by Walter Benjamin

Book Overview

"Every line we succeed in publishing today...is a victory wrested from the powers of darkness." So wrote Walter Benjamin in January 1940. Not long afterward, he himself would fall prey to those powers, a victim of suicide following a failed attempt to flee the Nazis. However insistently the idea of catastrophe hangs over Benjamin's writings in the final years of his life, the "victories wrested" in this period nonetheless constitute some of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674022297
• ISBN13: 9780674022294
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"