Few twentieth-century thinkers have proven as influential as Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish philosopher and cultural and literary critic. Richard Wolin’s book remains among the clearest and most insightful introductions to Benjamin’s writings, offering a philosophically rich exposition of his complex relationship to Adorno, Brecht, Jewish Messianism, and Western Marxism. Wolin provides nuanced interpretations of Benjamin’s widely studied writings on Baudelaire, historiography,...
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PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
A NOTE ON THE TRANSLATIONS
A NOTE ON TERMINOLOGY
INTRODUCTION TO THE REVISED EDITION
Chapter One
ORIGINS
Childhood and Autobiograph...
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Richard Wolin is Distinguished Professor of History and Political Science at the CUNY Graduate Center. His books include The Politics of Being: The Political Thought o...
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