Yazar: Howard Eiland

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 …

Im ersten Satz erklärt dieses umfassende, facettenreiche Porträt Walter Benjamin zu einem »der wichtigsten Zeugen der europäischen Moderne«. Damit ist das Programm des Buches vorgegeben: Detailliert …

Disgust (Ekel, dégoût) is a state of high alert. It acutely says ‘no’ to a variety of phenomena that seemingly threaten the integrity of the self, if not its very existence. A counterpart to the feel …

Walter Benjamin is one of the twentieth century’s most important intellectuals, and also one of its most elusive. His writings-mosaics incorporating philosophy, literary criticism, Marxist analysis, …

Origin of the German Trauerspiel was Walter Benjamin’s first full, historically oriented analysis of modernity. Readers of English know it as "The Origin of German Tragic Drama, " but in fa …