Walter Benjamin's Passages (Studies in Contemporary German Social

By Pierre Missac

Book Overview

It was in Paris in 1937 that Georges Bataille introduced Pierre Missac to Walter Benjamin. This meeting launched the young French scholar on a half-century of engagement with Benjamin's work that culminated in the writing of Walter Benjamin's Passages. Taking a cue from his subject, Missac adopts a form of indirect critique in which independent details examined seemingly in passing emerge over the course of the book as parts of larger patterns of understanding. The interlocked essays move among such topics as reading and writing, collecting, the dialectic, and time and history.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262133059
• ISBN13: 9780262133050
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 6.3"