Walter Benjamin : : A Critical Life / / Howard Eiland.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Eiland, Howard,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (765 p.) :; 37 halftones

Walter Benjamin was perhaps the twentieth century's most elusive intellectual. His writings defy categorization, and his improvised existence has proven irresistible to mythologizers. In a major new biography, Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings present a comprehensive portrait of the man and hi...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. A Berlin Childhood: 1892– 1912
• 2. Metaphysics of Youth: Berlin and Freiburg, 1912– 1914
• 3. The Concept of Criticism: Berlin, Munich, and Bern, 1915– 1919
• 4. Elective Affinities: Berlin and Heidelberg, 1920– 1922
• 5. Academic Nomad: Frankfurt, Berlin, and Capri, 1923– 1925
• 6. Weimar Intellectual: Berlin and Moscow, 1925– 1928
• 7. The Destructive Character: Berlin, Paris, and Ibiza, 1929– 1932
• 8. Exile: Paris and Ibiza, 1933– 1934
• 9. The Parisian Arcades: Paris, San Remo, and Skovsbostrand, 1935– 1937
• 10. Baudelaire and the Streets of Paris: Paris, San Remo, and Skovsbostrand, 1938– 1939
• 11. The Angel of History: Paris, Nevers, Marseilles, and Port Bou, 1939– 1940
• Epilogue
• Abbreviations
• Notes
• Selected Bibliography
• Ac know ledg ments
• Index