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The Complete Correspondence 1928-1940

Name: The Complete Correspondence 1928-1940
Author: Walter Benjamin

Auteur: Theodor W. Adorno

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Theodor W. Adorno Walter Benjamin

Engels
Hardcover
9780745618180
16 augustus 1999
392 pagina's

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Walter Benjamin

"Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (German: [ˈvaltɐ ˈbɛnjamiːn]; 15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist. An eclectic thinker, combining elements of German idealism, Romanticism, Western Marxism, and Jewish mysticism, Benjamin made enduring and influential contributions to aesthetic theory, literary criticism, and historical materialism. He was associated with the Frankfurt School, and also maintained formative friendships with thinkers such as playwright Bertolt Brecht and Kabbalah scholar Gershom Scholem. He was also related by law to German political theorist Hannah Arendt through her first marriage to Benjamin’s cousin, Günther Anders.

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The surviving correspondence between Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno. * This is the first time all of the surviving correspondence between Adorno and Benjamin has appeared in English. * Provides a key to the personalities and projects of these two major intellectual figures.

The surviving correspondence between Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno, which appears here for the first time in its entirety in English translation, documents one of the most remarkable and intense intellectual relationships of modern times. In over a hundred letters, which range from brief and cordial exchanges to dense and detailed theoretical elucidations, it is now possible to trace the complex and developing character of Benjamin's and Adorno's attitudes to one another, and not least to many of their mutual friends, like Scholem, Bloch and Brecht. The correspondence also reveals the considerable lengths to which Adorno went in furthering Benjamin's interests intellectually and financially, and provides further insight into the cultural politics of the period and those of the Institute for Social Research.

Both correspondents express their sharply formulated opinions in an extremely candid and vivid fashion. When this book appeared in German, it caused a sensation because it included passages previously excised in other versions of the letters - passages in which the two friends celebrate their own intimacy with frank remarks about other people. The animated discussion of central concepts in Benjamin's work - the aura, the notion of authentic experience, the perspective of redemptive criticism - makes the letters an invaluable resource for all students of this complex and enigmatic figure, and further clarifies the affinities and differences between his work and that of Adorno. And, naturally, the letters reveal the correspondents' hopes and fears, and often their illusions, in the context of rapidly unfolding political and social developments in a drastic period of modern history.

The letters are extensively annotated with details concerning topics, writings, events and personalities directly referred to or implicitly alluded to in the correspondence, and the subjects discussed are cross-referenced with the relevant passages in the complete editions of Benjamin's and Adorno's work.

The surviving correspondence between Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno.

This is the first time all of the surviving correspondence between Adorno and Benjamin has appeared in English.
Provides a key to the personalities and projects of these two major intellectual figures.
Offers a compelling insight into the cultural politics of the period, at a time of social and political upheaval.
An invaluable resource for all students of the work of Adorno and especially of Benjamin, extensively annotated and cross-referenced.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 16 augustus 1999
Aantal pagina's: 392
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Theodor W. Adorno
Tweede Auteur: Walter Benjamin
Hoofdredacteur: Henri Lonitz
Hoofduitgeverij: Polity

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Eerste Vertaler: Nicholas Walker

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Editie: 2nd Edition
Product breedte: 161 mm
Product hoogte: 34 mm
Product lengte: 237 mm
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Verpakking hoogte: 34 mm
Verpakking lengte: 237 mm
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